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。
• The boy was enfeebled by the cold.
  那个男孩因感冒而虚弱无力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• On the contrary, it will be up to an enfeebled European Commission to try to hold the line.
  相反，人们还要依靠遭到削弱的欧盟委员会来努力维持当前局势。
• 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。
• 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。