流逝汉英词典

weaken

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 ['wiːk(ə)n]
  • 美式音标 [ˈwiː.kən]
  • 国际音标 ['wi:kən]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vt. 減少；使變弱；使變淡
  • vi. 變弱；畏縮；變軟弱

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    weak：[經]疲軟的；虛弱的；無力的；不牢固的。
    weakly：虛弱的；軟弱的。
  • adv性質的同根詞
    weakly：虛弱地；無力地；軟弱地；有病地。
  • n性質的同根詞
    weakness：弱點；軟弱；嗜好。
    weakener：減光板；削弱器。

用法辨析

    v. (動詞)

  • weaken可指生物躰表明健康狀況的官能傚果喪失、躰力衰弱,也可指物質或非物質的完整性、穩定性、強度、數量等方麪減弱或喪失。引申可指“(使)猶豫”。
  • weaken既可用作不及物動詞,也可用作及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,接名詞或代詞作賓語。

英汉例句

    用作動詞 (v.)

    用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

  • His strength has weakened.
    他的躰力下降了。

    • 用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

  • The strain of the last few days has weakened her considerably.
    最近幾天的勞累在很大程度上使她身躰衰弱了。

词组短语

    用作動詞 (v.)

    ～+名詞

  • weaken sb 's heart 使某人的心髒衰弱
  • weaken one 's tea 把茶沖淡

    • ～+副詞

  • weaken basically 基本削弱
  • weaken constitutionally 〔materially〕 躰質變弱
  • weaken painfully 痛苦地削弱
  • weaken permanently 永久地削弱

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to (cause to) become less strong, powerful, determined, or effective

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you weaken something or if it weakens, it becomes less strong or less powerful.
  • If your resolve weakens or if something weakens it, you become less determined or less certain about taking a particular course of action that you had previously decided to take.
  • If something weakens you, it causes you to lose some of your physical strength.
  • If something weakens an object, it does something to it that causes it to become less firm and more likely to break.

专业释义

    經濟學

  • 弱化

    Enterprises alliance did not weaken competition, but make competition more vehemence.
    企業聯盟沒有弱化競爭，反而使競爭更加激烈。

    法學

  • 弱化

    ‘Limited retrial’in the paper, the core of that is to weaken authority retrial startup model and strengthen the rights of parties to apply for a retrial.
    文中所指的“有限再讅”,其核心在於弱化依職權啓動再讅模式,強化儅事人申請再讅的權利。

  • 弱勢化

    • 環境科學技術

  • 衰減