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To impair something is to damage it or make it not as good as it should be — not smash it completely, but it. Bright lights can impair your vision for a moment. Too little sleep can impair your judgment. Alcohol impairs driving. It is a somewhat formal word; in everyday talk people say damage, , or make worse. You will see it a lot in medical and legal English. The feeling has always been 'make worse': that is what the old pieces of the word were doing.
損害、削弱
組成From Old French empeirier, from Latin impeiorare: in- + peiorare ('to make worse'), from peior ('worse'). So it has always meant 'make worse'.
同家族的字
- impairmentthe noun: the damage or the weakened state
- impairedthe adjective form
- pejorativesame Latin 'worse': a pejorative word makes something sound worse
原始詞典資料6 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。
impairverb/ɪmˈpɛə/
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To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- In 2016, it was announced that Jones had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that impairs the ability to communicate.
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archaicTo grow worse; to deteriorate.
- Flesh may empaire,[…]but reason can repaire.
impairadj/ɪmˈpɛə/
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obsoleteNot fit or appropriate; unsuitable.
- giues he not till iudgement guide his bounty, / Nor dignifies an impaire thought with breath:
impairnoun/ɪmˈpɛə/
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obsoleteThe act of impairing or deteriorating.
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obsoleteThe fact of being impaired or having grown worse.
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obsoleteAn impairment or deterioration.
- Suppoſe a mans credit ſhould ſuffer an impair with thoſe whoſe cenſure is not to be valued; yet think, which is worſe, ſhame or ſin? Wilt thou ſin againſt God to ſave thy credit?
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。