| 词汇 | enervate |
| 释义 | enervate verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈen.ə.veɪt/ us /ˈen.ɚ.veɪt/ to make someone feel weak and without energy使衰弱；使无力；使丧失活力 Becoming and making less strong abate abatement adulterant adulterate adulterated downtoner dull ease emasculation enervating enervatingly fade hedge melt relieve totter tottering turn to jellyidiom undimmed unsubdued Even educational establishments are suspect on the ground—not unnatural after his own experience of Oxford—that their possibilities of comfort may enervate the natural energies of men. It enervated the people and left them powerless to cope with those enemies who, as soon as the iron hand of the Roman legions was removed, came forth from their hiding places to harry the land. Shun all that may enervate or diminish your youthful energies. The man in full possession of his mental qualities and corporeal strength is, in most cases, very different from that unfortunate being whose mind is, enervated by sufferings and whose body is weakened by wants. Their enjoyment seemed derived so directly from nature that it almost excited a feeling of regret that civilised men, enervated by luxury and all its concomitant diseases, should ever disturb the haunts of these rude but happy beings. Examples of enervateenervate The neural machinery for controlling muscles and for enervating the sensory surface might reasonably increase with some function of body size. Those collapses, however, do not enervate the productivity of analogy; they merely expose the extra levels of mediation that analogy compels. Through such metaphorical comparisons, white-collar masculinity was, then, at once energised and enervated. The shock of the king's death had enervated the royalist cause. Moreover, he claimed that prolonged exposure to parliamentary rhetoric and the development of the skills necessary to succeed in this environment were spiritually enervating. Instead of providing a potential escape from an ' ' enervating civilization ' ' they proved complicit in the iron cage they were embraced to resist. Finally, highly fractionalised parties in government enervated the authority of the executive and rendered prime ministers vulnerable to the problem of the lame duck. The fundamental force driving change in brain size is the number of neurons, coupled with the amount of body the neurons must enervate, directly or indirectly. Even when legislatures enacted eight-hour laws, for example, legislators often included loopholes that nullified them, or public executives enforced them irregularly, or the courts enervated them. That saps all their enterprise and initiative and enervates and unmans them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Something that was initially exciting and interesting is enervating when one has revisited it for the umpteenth time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is enervating; it always tends to reward the inefficient rather than the efficient. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are enervating to the areas concerned, apart from all their other dangers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is enervating democracy to keep upsetting the parties all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are experienced, and not enervate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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