atrophy
/'ætrәfi/
📖 中文释义
- n. 萎缩, 萎缩症
- [医] 萎缩
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
💬 双语例句
The muscles in his legs had atrophied during the seven months he was bedridden.
他的腿部肌肉在他卧床不起的七个月中萎缩了。
If Europeans merely invoke the lofty mantra of “an ever closer union,” their institutions will atrophy.
如果欧洲人仅仅借用“前所未有的紧密联盟”的崇高口头禅,他们的体制就会丧失生命力。 如果没有新的统一目标 — — 这一目标必须以共同的物质利益,而非担心普京的俄罗斯重新崛起为基础 — — 欧洲的行业协会很快就会倒闭。
But it is likely that parochial interests will become even more dominant, at least until major elections are complete. An opening for a European approach may follow, but only if the current torpor does not lead to institutional atrophy.
🔵 同义词
🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
- n. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
- v. undergo atrophy