emasculate
词根词缀:
emasculate v. 阉割
e 除去 + mascul 雄性 + ate 做,造成,使… → 除去雄性器官 → 阉割
emasculation n. 阉割;柔弱
emasculate的名词
masculine adj. 男子气的
mascul 雄性 + ine 具有…性质的 → 男子气的
masculinity n. 男性(气质);雄性
masculine的名词
efface v. 擦掉
ef〔 = e〕无;除去 + face 脸 → 从脸上去掉 → 擦掉
eliminate v. 消除
e 无;除去 + limin 门槛 + ate 做,造成,使… → 从门槛里除去 → 消除
elimination n. 消除
eliminate的名词
emasculate v. 阉割
e 无;除去 + mascul 雄性 + ate 做,造成,使… → 去男性化 → 阉割
eradicate v. 根除
e 无;除去 + radic 根 + ate 做,造成,使… → 除根 → 根除
elaborate v. 精工细作
e 表加强或引申 + labor 工作,劳动 + ate 做,造成,使… → 精细化工作 → 精工细作
elongate v. 延长
e 表加强或引申 + long 长 + ate 做,造成,使… → 延长
enumerate v. 列举
e 表加强或引申 + numer 数,计数 + ate 做,造成,使… → 用数表示 → 列举
especial adj. 特别的
e 表加强或引申 + special 特别的 → 特别的
estop v. 禁止
e 表加强或引申 + stop 阻止 → 禁止
estrange v. 疏远
e 表加强或引申 + strange 陌生 → 使…陌生 → 疏远
evanish v. 消失
e 表加强或引申 + van 空 + ish 使… → 凭空不见 → 消失
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相关例句:
Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
自日本战败后,日本军队遭到大幅削减。
Measures designed to emasculate worker militancy.
旨在削弱工人战斗性的措施。
Our opponents, in short, were prepared to stop the operation of the entire government so as to emasculate military operations in indochina.
总之,我们的对手不惜停止整个政府的活动,以阉割在印度之那的一切军事行动。
But God, He is apparently very sturdy, but why He always makes people feel that He is so emasculate.
可是神,他明明那么雄壮,可为什么常常让人觉得柔柔弱弱的。
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,但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。
But it will never succeed with a hostile Russia on its borders ( and within its borders) determined to emasculate Ukraine as a political and economic entity.
但如果在其边境(及其境内)有一个充满敌意、决心削弱乌克兰政治和经济实力的俄罗斯,该任务将永远不会取得成功。