| 单词 | unnerve |
| 释义 | un·nerve 1. < a steeplejack … was exhausted and unnerved and could not hold on to his dangerous perch much longer — Boy Scout Handbk. > < the sudden revulsion of feeling unnerved him — F.W.Crofts > 2. < a lady … so emotional in her acting that she unnerves me — John McCarten > < waiting for something to happen was starting to unnerve everybody > 3. < unnerve a chronically lame leg of a horse > Synonyms: < utterly unnerved by her surprise, Fara leaned limply against him — L.C.Douglas > < the magnitude of problems in other fields (education, health, housing, social welfare) is equally unnerving — Hal Lehrman > < so unnerved … that he threw away his pistol — Peter Forster > enervate implies a gradual physical or moral weakening, often as a result of luxury or indolence, until one is too feeble to exert effort < work had not made him strong, but enervated him. He was pale and thin, with no chest, no buttocks, not even a stomach — Donald Windham > < such a power does not destroy, but … enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals — Alexis de Tocqueville > < a love of luxury has enervated the virile race that swarmed in cabins — Russell Lord > unman implies loss of manly vigor, control, or spirit < debilitated and unmanned by factory-produced comforts — Time > < every tiny animal he roused in its burrow startled him, unmanned him with the noise of its movement — Norman Mailer > < unmanned by a woman's tears > emasculate implies a loss of force, especially by the removal of something essential < a plan emasculated by lack of funds > < supporters voted against the treaty … rather than have it passed in emasculated form — H.S.Quigley > < how to … emasculate homemade bombs — J.A.Maxwell > |
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