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Something enervating makes you feel tired and weak while it is happening. Hot, heavy weather is the classic example; a long speech or a slow, airless room can be enervating too. It is the -ing adjective from , still rather formal. You use it of the cause, not of the worn-out person: the heat is enervating; the people are . Though actually, it is not a compliment dressed up as a long word — it never means lively or .
令人疲憊無力的
組成The -ing form of enervate, used as an adjective.
同家族的字
- enervatethe verb this form comes from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
enervatingadj
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That enervates.
- No enervating arts refined To slumber lull'd his heaven-born might; No weak indulgence warp'd thy mind, To cloud a hero's path of light.
- I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。