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weaken

英 ['wiːk(ə)n] 美['wikən]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

vt. 减少；使变弱；使变淡
vi. 变弱；畏缩；变软弱

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It weakens in one's later years.

Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the world economy.

In the long run, the Depression weakened American families, and the current crisis will probably do the same.

It will gradually weaken the eyes of adults.

For instance, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes.

Generous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences:instead of strengthening women's attachment to the workplace,they appear to weaken it.

He felt troubled about the weakening of American craftsmanship.

Inevitably however, the day came when she was so weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her home town.

Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day.

The synapses in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping.

Voice manipulation technologies may weaken that gradually.

It is like the immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition or exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us.