英语单词

emasculate是什么意思

emasculate

英[ɪ'mæskjʊleɪt] |美[ɪ'mæskjʊlɪt]
    vt.阉割;使柔弱;删削;使无力
    adj.阉割了的,柔弱的
日语:去勢する 法语:émasculer 德语:entmannen 韩语:무력화하다 俄语:castrar

牛津词典

verb

  1. 削弱;使无力;使失去效力
    to make sb/sth less powerful or less effective
    1. 使(男人)柔弱;使无男子气
      to make a man feel that he has lost his male role or qualities


      网络解释

      vt. 阉割;使柔弱 adj. 柔弱的;阉割了的



      同、反义词

      同义词:
      v.
      weaken,enfeeble,undermine,enervate,unnerve
      反义词:
      v.
      empower


      词形变化

      过去分词:emasculated 现在分词:emasculating 第三人称单数:emasculates 过去式:emasculated



      双语例句

      1. Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised
        左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。
      2. The company tried to emasculate the unions
        公司试图削弱工会的力量。
      3. Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
        自日本战败后,日本军队遭到大幅削减。
      4. Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
        托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕,但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。
      5. But it will never succeed with a hostile Russia on its borders ( and within its borders) determined to emasculate Ukraine as a political and economic entity.
        但如果在其边境(及其境内)有一个充满敌意、决心削弱乌克兰政治和经济实力的俄罗斯,该任务将永远不会取得成功。
      6. Our opponents, in short, were prepared to stop the operation of the entire government so as to emasculate military operations in indochina.
        总之,我们的对手不惜停止整个政府的活动,以阉割在印度之那的一切军事行动。
      7. Measures designed to emasculate worker militancy.
        旨在削弱工人战斗性的措施。
      8. Get some concrete examples and emasculate him.
        搜集一些具体的例子,让他无力辩驳。
      9. But God, He is apparently very sturdy, but why He always makes people feel that He is so emasculate.
        可是神,他明明那么雄壮,可为什么常常让人觉得柔柔弱弱的。
      10. Physically, she was of a pale, emasculate and unimportant structure.
        就身体上说,她肤色苍白,身体柔弱,并不出色。


      语源

      early 17th cent.: from Latin emasculat-castrated, from the verb emasculare, from e-(variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + masculusmale


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