impotence
impotence 英 ['ɪmpətəns] 美 [ˈɪmpətəns]
n. [泌尿][中医] 阳萎；虚弱；无效（等于impotency）
- Impotence is the state of being weak or unable to accomplish something, like the impotence a broom in clearing a foot of snow from your sidewalk.
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- n. [泌尿][中医] 阳萎；虚弱；无效（等于impotency）
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1. So rather than sneer at Europe’s impotence, the world should be asking whether Europe can rediscover its vigour—and if so how.
所以，与其嘲笑欧洲无能，世界其他国家应该问一问欧洲是首能首振雄风，如果可以的话，又是如何做到。
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2. This control can be exercised through guilt, criticism, blame, anger, but also by impotence, fear of losing, discomfort and illness.
这种控制不但通过内疚、批判、责备、愤怒，还可以通过无能、害怕失去、不安和疾病来实施。
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3. Though rare, there have been cases reported of incontinence and impotence with this procedure.
尽管很少，但也有报告指出有关这一疗法引发的失禁以及阳痿案例。
- impotence (n.) early 15c., "physical weakness," also "poverty," from Old French impotence "weakness" (13c.), from Latin impotentia "lack of control or power," from impotentem "lacking control, powerless" (see impotent). In reference to a complete want of (male) sexual potency, from c. 1500. The figurative senses of the word in Latin were "violence, fury, unbridled passion," via the notion of "want of self-restraining power," and these sometimes were used in English. Related: Impotency.
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