| 单词 | enervate |
| 释义 | enervate verb[T] formaluk/ˈen.ə.veɪt/us/ˈen.ɚ.veɪt/to make someonefeelweakand withoutenergy 使衰弱；使无力；使丧失活力Becoming and making less strong
Examplesofenervateenervate The neural machinery for controlling muscles and for enervating the sensory surface might reasonably increase with some function of body size. From theCambridge English Corpus Those collapses, however, do notenervatethe productivity of analogy; they merely expose the extra levels of mediation that analogy compels. From theCambridge English Corpus Through such metaphorical comparisons, white-collar masculinity was, then, at once energised and enervated. From theCambridge English Corpus The shock of the king's death had enervated the royalist cause. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, he claimed that prolonged exposure to parliamentary rhetoric and the development of the skills necessary to succeed in this environment were spiritually enervating. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead of providing a potential escape from an ' ' enervating civilization ' ' they proved complicit in the iron cage they were embraced to resist. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, highly fractionalised parties in government enervated the authority of the executive and rendered prime ministers vulnerable to the problem of the lame duck. From theCambridge English Corpus The fundamental force driving change in brain size is the number of neurons, coupled with the amount of body the neurons mustenervate, directly or indirectly. From theCambridge English Corpus Even when legislatures enacted eight-hour laws, for example, legislators often included loopholes that nullified them, or public executives enforced them irregularly, or the courts enervated them. From theCambridge English Corpus That saps all their enterprise and initiative and enervates and unmans them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Something that was initially exciting and interesting is enervating when one has revisited it for the umpteenth time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is enervating; it always tends to reward the inefficient rather than the efficient. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are enervating to the areas concerned, apart from all their other dangers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is enervating democracy to keep upsetting the parties all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are experienced, and notenervate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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