atrophy

英 ['ætrəfi] 美 ['ætrəfi]

• n. 萎缩；衰退；虚脱；萎缩症
• v. 萎缩；衰退；虚脱

英英释义

Noun:

1. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

2. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)

Verb:

1. undergo atrophy;

   "Muscles that are not used will atrophy"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. More exercises can avoid atrophy of cartilage.
   多加锻炼可以避免软骨萎缩。
2. The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.
   除非能多涌现出一些作家和艺术家

用作动词 (v.)

1. Muscles that are not used will atrophy.
   肌肉经常不用就会萎缩。
2. Their political power gradually atrophied.
   他们的政治力量逐渐衰退了。

经典引文

• Organs are strengthened by exercise and atrophied by disuse.

  出自： J. S. Mill

• The pressure of commercial life has crushed and atrophied that creative impulse completely.

  出自： R. Fry

• She was too old to learn anything new and..her brain had become atrophied.

  出自： B. Pym

词汇搭配

• compensatory atrophy 代偿性萎缩
• degenerative atrophy 变性萎缩
• brown atrophy 褐色萎缩
• bone atrophy 骨萎缩
• alveolar atrophy 牙槽萎缩
• adipose atrophy 脂肪萎缩
• disuse atrophy 废用性萎缩
• functional atrophy 机能性萎缩
• anaplasia atrophy 退行发育
• correlated atrophy 关连性萎缩
• facial atrophy 面萎缩
• exhaustion atrophy 衰竭性萎缩
• cardiac atrophy 心萎缩
• arthritic atrophy 关节周肌萎缩...
• idiopathic atrophy 特发性萎缩
• gray atrophy 灰色萎缩
• convolutional atrophy 脑回萎缩
• diffuse atrophy 弥漫性萎缩
• general atrophy 全身萎缩

近反义词

【近义词】

• degenerate 退化
• deteriorate 恶化
• shrivel （使）枯萎
• waste 废物
• weaken 使 ... 弱，削弱...
• wither 枯萎，干枯
• withering 摧毁的
• wasting 消耗性的