emasculate 详细解释

emasculate

[i'mæskjuleit]

v.阉割,使柔弱, 削弱
adj.去势的,柔弱的

词形变化

形容词: emasculative | 名词: emascula-tion | 动词过去式: emasculated | 动词过去分词: emasculated | 动词现在分词: emasculating | 动词第三人称单数: emasculates |

英英释义

动词 emasculate:

deprive of strength or vigor

同义词:castrate

remove the testicles of a male animal

同义词:castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise

形容词 emasculate:

having unsuitable feminine qualities

同义词:effeminate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy

补充

emasculateemasculate英:[iˈmæskjuleit] 美:[ɪˈmæskjəˌlet]vt.1.阉割,使柔弱,删削,使无力adj.1.阉割了的,柔弱的

例句

1. The company tried to emasculate the unions.公司试图削弱工会。 2. measures designed to emasculate worker militancy旨在削弱工人斗争精神的措施 3. Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised.左翼持不同政见者被削弱和边缘化了。 4. 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, 但是他明显让女朋友给调教服帖了。 5. His father had tried to cure his promiscuity by taking a knife and emasculating him.他父亲曾试图用刀阉割他来解决他的淫乱行为。 6. A fireworks display in a small London garden is an emasculate thing.在伦敦的一个小花园中进行烟火表演效果会大打折扣。 7. measures designed to emasculate the labour movement旨在削弱工人运动的措施 8. a novel emasculated by censorship一部为审查制度所删削的小说 9. the refusal to allow them to testify effectively emasculated the committee.不让他们作证有效地削弱了委员会的权力。 10. he feels emasculated, because he cannot control his sons' behaviour.连自己的儿子都管不住,他觉得自己没有一点男子汉的威严。 11. He plays the role of a meek husband who has been emasculated by his domineering wife.他是个温顺的丈夫,被他那专横的妻子弄得连男子气概都没有了。 12. Critics charged that this change would emasculate the law.批评者指责这一改变会削弱法律效力。