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

• 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。
• But his character had been so much enfeebled by suffering, that even its lower energies were incapable of more than a temporary struggle. He sank down on the ground, and buried his face in his hands.
  但他本人已经给折磨得十分虚弱，即使这种较低劣的表现也只能是转瞬即逝的挣扎。他一屁股坐在地上，把脸埋在双手之中。
• The poor, bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination.
  那个贫困、驼背、衰老的人指点了他的思路。
• To many Westerners NATO looks pretty much an enfeebled alliance, a relic of the cold war.
  在许多西方人眼里，北约（nato）在很大程度上是一个虚弱无力的联盟，是冷战的遗物。
• 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。
• He is enfeebled by illness.
  他因疾病而身心衰弱。
• 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。
• But now a weak president has returned America to its enfeebled state under Jimmy Carter, when US diplomats were taken hostage in Iran.
  但现在，一位软弱的总统又把美国带回到了类似吉米卡特（JimmyCarter）主政时那种虚弱无力的境地，那时有多名美国外交官在伊朗被劫持为人质。
• 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。
• 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。