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单词 emasculate
释义
emasculate
verb[T]
uk
/ɪˈmæs.kjə.leɪt/us
/ɪˈmæs.kjə.leɪt/
formal
toreducetheeffectivenessof something:
使衰弱；使效力减弱
They wereaccusedoftryingto emasculate the report'srecommendations.他们被指责企图贬低报告的可取之处。
formal
to make a manfeellessmaleby taking away hispowerandconfidence:
使缺少男子气；使（男人）柔弱
But another man in hisforties, whosein-lawsarerich,findsit hard toacceptgiftsfrom them: "Ifeelemasculated in thatold-fashionedroleofprovider.”
Ithinkthat may be astepforward, to havepeopleother than womenprojecttheirdesireonto you withoutfeelingit emasculates you.
biologyspecialized
tocastrate(=removethemalesexualpartsof)a man ormaleanimal, or toremovethemalepartsof aplant:
Lastnight, Trudeassistedin her firstcastrationsince emasculating aguineapigback in Bristol: thistimeit was acamel.
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Becoming and making less strong
  • abate
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  • adulterated
  • adulteration
  • decline
  • emasculation
  • enervate
  • enervating
  • enfeeble
  • enfeebled
  • fade
  • melt
  • relieve
  • sink
  • totter
  • tottering
  • turn to jellyidiom
  • wane
  • waste away
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emasculation
(Definition ofemasculatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
emasculate
verb[T]
uk
/ɪˈmæs.kjə.leɪt/us
/ɪˈmæs.kjə.leɪt/
formal
toreducetheeffectivenessof something
使衰弱；使效力减弱
They wereaccusedoftryingto emasculate the report'srecommendations.他们被指责企图贬低报告的可取之处。
formal
to make a manfeellessmaleby taking away hispowerandconfidence
使缺少男子气；使（男人）柔弱
A lot of men wouldfeelemasculated if theystayedathomewhiletheirwiveswent out towork.如果妻子出去工作而自己呆在家里，很多男人就会感到丧失了男子气概。
biologyspecialized
toremovethemalepartsof something
阉割

Examplesofemasculate

emasculate
In the diurnal cross-pollination treatment, buds were emasculated before anthesis and rebagged and pollinated at 06h00- 06h30 the following morning.
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With their chiefs emasculated and #!
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The exaltation of the heroic and the manly may also have revealed the fragility of masculinity in this period, not least in the intensely problematic status of the emasculated.
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Where the paternal authority is elided due to emasculated patriarchs (the dead or removed paternal figure), the fraternity will have its day, but the results are mixed, at best.
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You are going to have truncated, emasculated tribunals.
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At the time, some of the major stress areas which were well run and providing all-embracing services were quite brutally emasculated.
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There is no reason why the functions of that organisation should be emasculated.
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However, what we know from government intentions is that they are to be emasculated and returned to local education authority control.
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They are war-minded, and to take away their armaments emasculates their nationalism and takes away their national machismo.
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They are driven back on an emasculated policy.
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Their powers of enforcement would be emasculated by the removal of the sanction of sequestration for contempt of court.
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They are emasculating the power of local authorities to provide houses to let.
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I would have thought that this emasculates half the reason for its existence.
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One takes the report, espouses it and then emasculates, diminishes and reduces it from what it was intended to do.
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To my mind, that would not be an emasculated statement and would therefore be a valid one.
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