debilitating

英 [dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ]

v.  (使身心)衰弱，衰竭，虚弱; 削弱(国家、机构)的力量; 使软弱无力
debilitate的现在分词

现在分词：debilitating　

BNC.14205 / COCA.11408

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使虚弱;使衰弱
  If youare debilitated bysomething such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
  1. Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus.
     昨天拉塞尔因肠胃病毒感染身体不适，由斯图尔特暂时接手。
• VERB 削弱（组织、社团或政府）的力量
  Todebilitatean organization, society, or government means to gradually make it weaker.
  1. ...their efforts to debilitate the political will of the Western alliance.
     他们试图削弱西方联盟的政治决心的努力

英英释义

adj

• impairing the strength and vitality

双语例句

• 1 the debilitating disease made him too weak to work.
  这个令他衰弱的病，使他弱到没有办法工作。
• Historically, social order has been secured by violence, fear or debilitating poverty.
  历史上，社会秩序向来是通过暴力、恐吓和赤贫建立的。
• Diabetes is one of this nation's most prevalent, debilitating, deadly and costly diseases.
  糖尿病是国家流行最广，使人身体虚弱，致死率高，花费大的疾病之一。
• Researchers may have discovered why the popular antimalarial, quinine, causes debilitating side-effects.
  科学家可能发现了常见抗疟药奎宁导致使人虚弱的副作用的原因。
• Unlike hepatitis B and C, hepatitis A infection does not cause chronic liver disease and is rarely fatal, but it can cause debilitating symptoms.
  与乙型肝炎和丙型肝炎不同，甲型肝炎感染不会造成慢性肝病，也很少致命，但它会出现使人衰弱的症状。
• COPD is a chronic, debilitating lung disease that compromises quality of life and can cause premature death.
  慢性阻塞性肺病是一种使人衰弱的慢性肺病，影响生活质量并会引起过早死亡。
• The worm eventually causes a debilitating and painful infection that begins with a blister, normally on the leg.
  线虫最终引起使人虚弱和疼痛的感染，通常开始时在腿上出现水疱。
• Smoking tobacco is responsible for many debilitating diseases such as chronic bronchitis and vascular diseases.
  吸食烟草会造成许多身体衰弱的疾病，例如慢性支气管炎及慢性血管疾病。
• From infants to senior citizens, immunization prevents debilitating illness, disability and death from vaccine-preventable diseases.
  从婴儿到老年人，免疫接种能够防止疫苗可预防疾病引起使人衰弱的疾患、残疾和死亡。
• Maybe that makes for pragmatic politics, but it also feels distinctly debilitating.
  这或许为务实政治营造了氛围，但也让人明显感觉难以有所作为。