emasculate

英 [iˈmæskjuleɪt]

美 [iˈmæskjuleɪt]

v.  削弱; 使无力; 使失去效力; 使(男人)柔弱; 使无男子气

过去分词：emasculated　现在分词：emasculating　第三人称单数：emasculates　过去式：emasculated　

GRE

BNC.32775 / COCA.32219

牛津词典

verb

• 削弱；使无力；使失去效力
  to make sb/sth less powerful or less effective
• 使（男人）柔弱；使无男子气
  to make a man feel that he has lost his male role or qualities

柯林斯词典

• VERB 削弱;使势力减弱;使无效
  If someone or somethingis emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective.
  1. Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised...
     左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。
  2. The company tried to emasculate the unions...
     公司试图削弱工会的力量。
  3. Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
     自日本战败后，日本军队遭到大幅削减。
• VERB 使缺乏男子气；使柔弱
  If a manis emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.
  1. Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
     托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕，但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。

英英释义

verb

• remove the testicles of a male animal
  Synonym:castratedemasculinizedemasculinise
• deprive of strength or vigor
  1. The Senate emasculated the law
  Synonym:castrate

adj

• having unsuitable feminine qualities
  Synonym:effeminateepicenecissysissifiedsissyishsissy

双语例句

• Our opponents, in short, were prepared to stop the operation of the entire government so as to emasculate military operations in indochina.
  总之，我们的对手不惜停止整个政府的活动，以阉割在印度之那的一切军事行动。
• Since Japan's defeat, the military has remained largely emasculated.
  自日本战败后，日本军队遭到大幅削减。
• Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised
  左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。
• Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend.
  托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕，但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。
• Physically, she was of a pale, emasculate and unimportant structure.
  就身体上说，她肤色苍白，身体柔弱，并不出色。
• Get some concrete examples and emasculate him.
  搜集一些具体的例子，让他无力辩驳。
• But God, He is apparently very sturdy, but why He always makes people feel that He is so emasculate.
  可是神，他明明那么雄壮，可为什么常常让人觉得柔柔弱弱的。
• The company tried to emasculate the unions
  公司试图削弱工会的力量。
• Measures designed to emasculate worker militancy.
  旨在削弱工人战斗性的措施。
• But it will never succeed with a hostile Russia on its borders ( and within its borders) determined to emasculate Ukraine as a political and economic entity.
  但如果在其边境（及其境内）有一个充满敌意、决心削弱乌克兰政治和经济实力的俄罗斯，该任务将永远不会取得成功。