enfeebled

英 [ɪnˈfiːbld]

美 [ɪnˈfiːbld]

adj.  变得衰弱的; 羸弱的
v.  使衰弱; 使虚弱; 使无力
enfeeble的过去分词和过去式

过去式：enfeebled　

BNC.34918 / COCA.36950

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 变得衰弱的;羸弱的
  If someone or something isenfeebled, they have become very weak.
  1. He finds himself politically enfeebled.
     他发现自己的政治势力变得衰弱。
  2. ...the already enfeebled newspaper.
     那家已经式微的报纸

双语例句

• Elsewhere a crowd of bees, squeezing one another, is falling upon some victim, beating and crushing it; and the killed or enfeebled bee drops slowly, light as a feather, on to the heap of corpses.
  在第三处，一群蜜蜂互相挤压，向一个牺牲品进攻，打它，挤它，那只垂危或已死亡的蜜蜂像茸毛一样，从上面掉到蜜蜂尸体堆中去。
• This is not to say they are reverting to old-style imperialism; both are too enfeebled for that.
  这并不是说他们要复辟旧式帝国主义，两国都无力为之。
• The aim ostensibly is to protect Iraqi airspace and revive its enfeebled air force.
  此举的目的表面上是为了保护伊拉克领空，重振衰弱的空军。
• They inherited an enfeebled economy, suffocating from enormous wage settlements.
  他们继承了脆弱的经济机构，深受巨额工资欠账的拖累。
• He is enfeebled by illness.
  他因疾病而身心衰弱。
• The beginning of20th century witnessed an impoverished and enfeebled China that slumbered in dim prospects.
  20世纪初的中国，是一个贫穷落后前途一片暗淡的景象！
• She is old. Her hands are now too enfeebled to even needlework or cooking. When she walks, she has to over along with a groping hand on the wall for support.
  妈妈老了，她的手已经拿不住针线，也不能做饭了，甚至走路时也要手扶墙壁。
• Of the six butcheries in the county town of Hsiangtan, five are now closed and the remaining one slaughters only enfeebled or disabled animals.
  湘潭城内从前有六家牛肉店，现在倒了五家，剩下一家是杀病牛和废牛的。
• Instead of being enfeebled by age, the Elder had been empowered by it; he could outfly any gull in the Flock, and he had learned skills that the others were only gradually coming to know.
  年龄并没使长者衰弱，反而使他更有力量了，他能比鸥群中任何一个都飞得快，他学会的本领，其他海鸥还只能一点一滴地慢慢理解呢。
• Still, the idea that Europe has become so enfeebled that foreigners can buy it up at will strikes a chord.
  欧洲已变得如此衰弱以至于外国人可以随心所欲的在欧洲收购，这才是触动心弦的。