Enervate

(verb.) weaken mentally or morally.

沙琳编辑

• A perilous solitude, for it lasted long enough to enervate, not long enough to fortify me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• One cannot resist speculation as to what might have happened to Edison himself and to the development of electricity had he made this proposed plunge into the enervating tropics. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Too great humidity is enervating, and not conducive to either mental or physical exertion; on the other hand, too dry air is equally harmful. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The masses of people held together under the name Democratic are bound in an enervating communion. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I awoke next morning with courage revived and spirits refreshed: physical debility no longer enervated my judgment; my mind felt prompt and clear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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