| 英语单词 | impair |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪm'peə(r)] 美 [ɪm'per] |
| 中文释义 | vt.损害;削弱 [计算机] 损伤. |
| 英语例句 | (1) Loud noise would impair your hearing. (2) Smoking can impair the sexual response. (3) His illness has impaired his efficiency. (4) Don't boil the sauce as this and impair the flavor. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 大的噪音会损害你的听觉。 (2) 抽烟可以削弱性反应。 (3) 生病降低了他的效率。 (4) 酱汁还要煮沸,否则会影响味道。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If you make bad decisions in the morning after drinking coffee, you might conclude that caffeine tends to impair your judgment. When you impair something, you damage it or make it work poorly. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The root of the verb impair traces back to the Latin word pejorare, meaning “to make worse,” and that’s still what happens if you impair something. Whether it’s communication, visibility, or your marriage prospects, if you impair it, you make it worse. The word can be used for situations that describe something that has deteriorated, such as “Snow continued to impair driving conditions.” |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]损害;妨碍;削弱 If something impairs something such as an ability or the way something works, it damages it or makes it worse. [V n] [FORMAL 正式]
impaired
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