emasculate
GRE,1
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
- 削弱;使无力;使失去效力
to make sb/sth less powerful or less effective
- 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
同、反义词
同义词:
v.
weaken,enfeeble,undermine,enervate,unnerve
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
- 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。
- The company tried to emasculate the unions
公司试图削弱工会的力量。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- Measures designed to emasculate worker militancy.
旨在削弱工人战斗性的措施。
- Get some concrete examples and emasculate him.
搜集一些具体的例子,让他无力辩驳。
- 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。
- 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