atrophy

英 ['?tr?f?] 美['?tr?fi]

GRETOEFL擴展詞匯

復數:?atrophies;第三人稱單數:?atrophies;過去式:?atrophied;過去分詞:?atrophied;現在分詞:?atrophying;形容詞:?atrophied;

【記】a無 + trophic營養→萎縮；a不 + 音：出肥→不出肥→養的豬不出肥，萎縮；音：抽肥，抽肥補瘦，把肥抽去，減肥中的抽脂；

atrophy 萎縮

前綴a-, 不，非。詞根trophy, 營養，見hypertrophy, 營養過剩。

atrophy (n.): "a wasting away through lack of nourishment," 1620s (atrophied is from 1590s), from French atrophie, from Late Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia "a wasting away," noun of state from atrophos "ill-fed, un-nourished," from a- "not" + trophe "nourishment," from trephein "to fatten" (see -trophy).
atrophy (v.): 1822 (implied in atrophied), from atrophy (n.). Related: Atrophying.

1. The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.: 如果沒有更多的作家和藝術家出現，這個國家的文化生活將衰退。

2. If you allow your mind to stagnate, this particular talent will atrophy.: 如果你老不用腦，那么這一特殊才能就會退化。

3. The wall is thin and almost transparent probably due to atrophy of the villi.: 腸壁薄,幾乎是透明的,這可能是因絨毛萎縮.

4. Under the international finance crisis shadow, bulk commodity demand atrophy is serious.: 國際金融危機陰影下, 大宗商品需求萎縮嚴重.

5. The papilla shows initially sickle - shaped and later annular atrophy.: 視乳頭初始表現為病理形態,后來表現為環狀萎縮.