atrophy
英语
编辑词源
编辑借自法語 atrophie,源自拉丁語 atrophia,源自古希臘語 ἀτροφία (atrophía, “衰弱”),源自ἄτροφος (átrophos, “营养不良的,饮食不足的”),源自ἀ- (a-, “不”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “营养”),源自τρέφω (tréphō, “使...变胖”)。等价于a- + -trophy。
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编辑名词
编辑atrophy (可數 和 不可數,複數 atrophies)
衍生词汇
编辑动词
编辑atrophy (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 atrophies,現在分詞 atrophying,一般過去時及過去分詞 atrophied)
- (不及物) 衰弱,枯萎,衰退 (自18世纪初叶)
- 1987年6月13日, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
- Boy. I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.
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- 2013年10月13日, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, 出自 The New York Times[1]:
- The M10 highway looks normal enough at the southern limits of St. Petersburg, but then, with a jolt, it begins to atrophy. For the next 430 miles the surface of the highway, while paved, varies from corduroy to jaw-rattling patchwork.
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- (及物) 使...衰弱,弱化To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.