weaken

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。

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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。

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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。

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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

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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.

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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