deafen
deafen 英 [ˈdefn] 美 [ˈdɛfən]
vt. 使聋；淹没 vi. 变聋
进行时:deafening 过去式:deafened 过去分词:deafened 第三人称单数:deafens
- To deafen is to make someone permanently or temporarily unable to hear, especially with a very loud noise. If the music at a party deafens you, you'll probably go home early.
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- vt. 使聋；淹没
- vi. 变聋
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1. deafen】A sudden explosion deafened us for a moment.
突然的爆炸声使我们耳聋了一会儿。
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2. And some have the long-range acoustic device, a sound cannon that can be used to issue verbal warnings, or deafen anyone who stands in its path.
另外，有些部队还配有远程声学装置，也就是噪音大炮，用来发布口头警告，或让任何挡道者耳聋。
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3. In their report, published today in The Journal of Experimental Biology, the researchers warn that noise pollution—as well as chemical pollution—could deafen whales.
这项研究报告发布在今天的生物实验杂志上，研究者警告说，噪音的污染可导致鲸鱼失聪，这和化学污染一样的可怕。
- deafen (v.) 1590s, "to make deaf," from deaf + -en (1). The earlier verb was simply deaf (mid-15c.). For "to become deaf, to grow deaf," Old English had adeafian (intransitive), which survived into Middle English as deave but then took on a transitive sense from mid-14c. and sank from use except in dialects (where it mostly has transitive and figurative senses), leaving English without an intransitive verb here.
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