| 单词 | invalid |
| 释义 | invalid I. in·val·id 1. a. < this argument … is invalid on two counts — Monsanto Magazine > < now that rockets can escape gravity it is invalid to say that what goes up must come down > b. < acceptance of the new method was a tacit admission that the old technique was invalid and inferior > 2. < declared the wills technically invalid because of some legal flaw — Robert Graves > II. invalid archaic III. in·va·lid 1. a. < hired a nurse to care for his invalid mother > b. < invalid chair > < the whole family lived on invalid fare, on custards and broths and arrowroot pudding — Jean Stafford > 2. < reminding me that, if my chimney was allowed to stand in that invalid condition, my policy of insurance would be void — Herman Melville > IV. in·va·lid < arranged a bed table for the invalid — Eden Phillpotts > < an exaggeration to assume that France is a chronic economic invalid — Paul Johnson > specifically archaic < his garrison at present consists of a few hundreds of invalids — Tobias Smollett > V. in·va·lid transitive verb 1. < because of a bone ailment, has been invalided since childhood — Sat. Eve. Post > 2. < of the 185 firemen … sixty were invalided home because of smoke poisoning, burns, or exhaustion — Joseph Millard > specifically < invalided out of the Norfolk Yeomanry with rheumatic fever — Saturday Review > < received three bullets through the body, and was due to be invalided home — Joyce Cary > intransitive verb archaic 1. < cannot conceal from myself that I am invaliding — R.W.Sibthorp > 2. < the conscripts … invalid at an inexplicable rate — Spectator > |
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