enervate
enervate 英 [ˈenəveɪt] 美 [ˈenərveɪt]
vt. 使衰弱，使失去活力 adj. 衰弱的，无力的
进行时:enervating 过去式:enervated 过去分词:enervated 第三人称单数:enervates
- To enervate is to weaken, wear down, or even bum out. A three-hour lecture on the history of socks might thrill someone, it would enervate most people. So would a too-long soak in a hot tub. With your parents.
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- vt. 使衰弱，使失去活力
- adj. 衰弱的，无力的
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1. Bessie was the kind of girl that could enhance your performance as easily as she could enervate it.
贝西能轻而易举地提高你的比赛成绩，同样也能轻而易举地使你无力回天。
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2. O. Frenchmen, O. my cO. ntrymen, Let nO. yO. r enemies, with their desO. ating dO. trines, degrade yO. r sO. ls, and enervate yO. r virtues!
法兰西人，我的同胞啊，不要让你的敌人用那为人唾弃的原则使你的灵魂堕落，令你的美德削减吧！
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3. Frenchmen ! O my countrymen! Let not your enemies, with their desolating doctrines, degrade your souls, and enervate your virtues! No, Chaumette, no!
法兰西人，我的同胞啊，不要让人的敌人用那为人唾弃的原则使你的灵魂堕落，令你的美德削减吧！
- enervate (v.) c. 1600, "deprive of force or strength," from Latin enervatus, past participle of enervare "to weaken" (see enervation). Literal sense of "to weaken, impair" in English is from 1610s. Related: Ennervated; ennervating. As a verb Middle English had enerve (c. 1400, eneruyd).
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