喜樂美語
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    To enfeeble someone or something is to make them very weak or ill — so weak that little strength is left. Age, hunger, long illness, or a long war can enfeeble a person or even a country. It is an old, formal verb; in talk people say or make weak. You will meet it in news and history more than in the street. Though actually, it is stronger than a light tiredness: this is deep weakness, the kind that stays. The is the verb; the form you will see on people and systems is usually enfeebled.

    使衰弱；使變得虛弱（書面）

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組成From Middle English enfeblen, from Old French enfeblir. Built like en- + feeble.

同家族的字

  • feeblethe adjective inside it: weak
  • enfeebledthe -ed form, the usual adjective

原始詞典資料1 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。

enfeebleverb/ɪnˈfiːbəl/

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    To make feeble.

    • 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130, "...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."
    • In the face of enfeebled, self-harming opposition on both sides of the border (and a miserable economic recession on both sides too) he has performed brilliantly.

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。