| 单词 | enfeebling |
| 例句 | Years later, he pecked out “The Typewriter Manifesto,” a proclamation of the typospherians’ determination to resist the enfeebling aspects of the Internet Age. Viva la typewriter! 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z This is reassuring, I say, because, of course, Google Maps is enfeebling our innate abilities to find our way. ‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z They fear that the enfeebling of the judiciary will compromise the rule of law and make the economy unattractive for investment. How Biden should address Israel’s judiciary crisis | Bobby Ghosh 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z From incendiary speeches about migrants and the jailing of his political opponents, to his deliberate enfeebling of parliament and the judiciary. Tunisia's El General: The rapper who helped bring down Ben Ali 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The military will control the entire process and has spent the past two years enfeebling any credible opposition. Myanmar army leader touts election plan on Independence Day 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s an image that evokes an enfeebling combination of envy and rage, as it becomes increasingly clear that the botters are perpetually one step ahead of our mere keyboards and mouses. The unstoppable machines behind the game console shortage 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z A weakened Fairtrade portends the enfeebling of the very idea of fair trade. Is fair trade finished? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z These are things the Europeans agree need to be addressed, but not by enfeebling the nuclear deal which, they say, is crucial to their security. Has Trump made the world more dangerous? 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z As Congress enters into fiscal negotiations this month, the president’s proposed budget would cut the Park Service’s discretionary budget by 13% and reduce agency staff by 1,200 people, further enfeebling an already under-resourced agency. National parks for all: that's a populist cry we need | Jimmy Tobias 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr Rubio and the rest are meanwhile locked in a mutually enfeebling brawl. Trumped and Berned 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z To many foreign leaders, this blockage was a worrying sign of how domestic infighting was enfeebling the United States and impeding its traditional role of global leadership. A strengthened IMF benefits the U.S. and the world 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Japan’s prime minister framed a long-awaited apology over the “immeasurable damage and suffering” his country inflicted in World War II as another in an enfeebling cycle that should end. Your Friday Evening Briefing 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z If this fragmentation is everywhere enfeebling to governments, in Britain—with its traditional two-party system, majoritarianism and, at the apex, all-powerful prime minister—the effect is traumatic. A fairly useful prime minister 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z But even this is more symptom than cause of a societal recidivism in which economic change, the enfeebling crutch of welfarism and clinging to working-class tradition all play a part. The trials of life in Tilbury 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But critics worry about the enfeebling effects of too much protection. France protests over performers' pay 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The seizure of this industrial city on the road between Slovyansk, the antigovernment militia’s center, and Donetsk, the regional capital, marks a further enfeebling of the interim government in Kiev. Mayor of Ukraine’s Second-Largest City Is Shot 2014-04-28T12:30:55Z An enfeebling spell seemed to have been taken off his mind; and the lassitude of doubt and indecision was gone. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z But now they are weary and faint, like those of some sickly dweller in cities--of some slave of effeminate and enfeebling luxury. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Nevertheless, I rejoice in every fragment of doctrine which remains in it; and I should lament the enfeebling or diminution of any particle of that truth. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Their action may be explained as producing a congestion or as enfeebling the opposition of physiological tissues to pathological growths. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z In thy satire was no gall, in the sting of thy winged wit no venom, in the pathos of thy sorrow no enfeebling touch! Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z But this enfeebling doctrine was inextricably bound up with the fiction of democracy. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z You don’t die of any particular illness, and you haven’t gradually been wasting away under the spell of some awful, enfeebling disease that began years or decades earlier. Should We Stop Trying To Cure Cancer? 2012-02-08T11:53:42Z "Stagnant and enfeebling peace conditions" is, in view of subsequent events, distinctly good. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Feminine invasion everywhere else—in schools and colleges, in the arts, in politics, in commerce and in sports—is undoubtedly enfeebling the fibre of our manhood and the quality of masculine achievements. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z She now dropped, scarcely able to breathe from the oppression of the heat; or to sustain herself from the enfeebling effects of emptiness, joined to overpowering fatigue. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Are these fears God's merciful preparations for some dreadful tidings about to reach us? or are they the mere natural enfeebling of the power to hope as one grows older? Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z China finally escaped from Mao Zedong’s mad doctrine of perpetual revolution and from the enfeebling nostrums of central planning; it became an industrial powerhouse. Henry Kissinger on China 2011-05-14T03:18:15Z You are constantly enfeebling our resources and rendering us more and more tributary to distant parts of the nation. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z And without a regret, without an enfeebling doubt, he could turn his back upon a throne and an adoring people, in defense of an imperiled Protestantism in another land. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z The recollection of his former terrors in this very place increased his present forebodings of evil, by mingling themselves with his reflections, and enfeebling more and more his understanding. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z He, and others, similarly regard cricket's saturated fixture schedule as a classic case of enfeebling the golden goose. Buoyant rugby union gives the English a reason not to emigrate 2010-08-23T23:06:00Z They're leery of open-ended, ill-defined talks that create an illusion of progress and alleviate pressure for U.S. intervention — all while further enfeebling the already diminished Palestinian leader in the eyes of his own people. Palestinians Hold to Preconditions for Peace Talks 2010-07-30T08:05:00Z Lofty exaltation was followed by enfeebling relaxation, and the striving after Christ, by the fear of hell; and the opponent of the Holy One pressed himself as a spectre into the whole life of man. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. Lessing had been the first to break away from an enfeebling imitation of French Sentimentlalism. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z Very many imagine progress to be a struggle in behalf of Germany against the enfeebling system of innumerable small states, or a battling against religious rigorism and priest-rule in secular concerns. The Progressionists, and Angela. Of course, the parental may be good, but acquired poor, or the reverse, according as the subject is strengthening or enfeebling, building up or breaking down his physical constitution, by correct or erroneous physiological habit. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology One thing in your sturdy creed makes it omnipotent—the utter absence of such an enfeebling thought as that this life was meant to be a pleasure-house. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance Being played in the open air, during a season when few out-of-door recreations can be enjoyed, it is well calculated to counteract the enfeebling influence of confinement to our close and heated winter houses. The Canadian Curler's Manual The temperate habits of the Jew and his freedom from enfeebling vices generally must account for this, along with his marvellous vitality. The Children of the Poor Thus they were enabled, despite the retarding presence of the women and children, and the enfeebling effects of the long siege, to make the progress of between fifteen and twenty miles that day. The Story of Old Fort Loudon The effect of impure blood, in diminishing the desire for food, and enfeebling the digestive organs, is well illustrated by the following incidents. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Has not this remission or suppression of the articulations the effect of enfeebling the speech, by mollifying its bones and relaxing its nerves? Elements of Gaelic Grammar External nature and human nature appeared equally to languish under that enfeebling hot death in the atmosphere, which seemed to wither female beauty in the moment that it ripened. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 The condition of the Italian people shows conclusively that the predominating study of "the beautiful" has a most corrupting and enfeebling effect. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Was an enfeebling and afflicting of the natural man so necessary to the exaltation of the soul? Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange Thus the vertical line separates the indolent from the energetic basilar functions, and all the enfeebling, sensitive, morbid faculties that impair our energies are in the anterior basilar region. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 Nothing can be worse managed than the French Verb; which, though it possesses a competent variety of personal inflections, yet loses all the benefit of them by the perpetual enfeebling recurrence of the personal Pronouns. Elements of Gaelic Grammar These suggestions are urgently needed in France, where children are subjected to a far more rigid and enfeebling method than in America. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 This provision was important as a means of enfeebling the barons. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era It is mainly the enfeebling action of the same, which brings about such results. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Alcohol is the pathological fraud of frauds, degenerating while it claims to be reconstructing, enfeebling while it appears to be invigorating, destroying vitality while it professes to infuse new life.” Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The death of their king caused the deepest affliction to the Swedes, but aroused instead of enfeebling their courage. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History It was in later days that the habits of a voluptuary, of which his peculiar love of dress might have been slightly symptomatic, produced their effect, in enfeebling a mind made for eminence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 The particular qualities in the climate, stinting the growth and enfeebling the spirit of the native animals, have also proved injurious to such as have been transported to the Canadas by their present European inhabitants. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) Ill health was enfeebling him, destroying his wonted activity. The Story of Commodore John Barry And, fearing my escape, invit’st thou me Into thy bed, with fraudulent pretext Of love, that there, enfeebling by thy arts My noble spirit, thou may’st make me vile? The Odyssey of Homer The weather was mixed up with it all; the heaven broke up, a stormy summer raged, shattering the nerves, enfeebling the will, letting the awakened troop of vices loose in their gloomy moisture. En Route Yet this is what happens very frequently in Mr. Collins's novels, impoverishing and enfeebling his characters in a surprising degree, and reducing them to the condition of juiceless puppets without proper will or motion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Great changes had been accomplished by popular movements even during the enfeebling and disheartening reign of George the Fourth. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV He must stamp himself upon the institution, or its enfeebling influence will be stamped upon him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 The disorders of this climate are sadly enfeebling; they attack both mind and body, producing a painful sensitiveness to the slightest incident. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 These two functions of the Federalist party were quite in accord; they involved the organizing and domestic instinct against the disorganizing and meddlesome; the strengthening against the enfeebling process; practical thinking against fanciful theories. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series It was trust in her as God's agent of deliverance that filled the soul of France with new spirit, and unnerved her foes with enfeebling fears. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. But his vexatious captivity, and the enfeebling consequences of this wound, dulled his spirit. Tancred Or, The New Crusade The foregoing facts serve to show, that tobacco is one of the most active and deadly vegetable poisons known; it acts directly upon the nervous power, enfeebling, deranging, or extinguishing the actions of life. An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health But can you imagine Jesus joining the school of the rabbins under the pretext of learning how to reply to them, enfeebling his thought by their dialectic subtleties and fantastic exegesis? Life of St. Francis of Assisi Superior to this narrow and short sighted policy, Mr. Pitt sought to level these enfeebling and irritating distinctions, and to engage every British subject in the cause of his country. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States The rays of a sultry sun had a sickening and enfeebling influence beyond any which I had ever experienced. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Your cross is to resist this tendency to mysticism, to sentimental luxury, which is really enfeebling your soul and preventing you from attaining to true spiritual blessedness. Life of Father Hecker The snufftaker necessarily swallows a part of it, especially when asleep, by which means its enfeebling effects must be increased. An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health If toleration proceeds from the enfeebling of religious belief, we ought among various nations to meet with toleration in an inverse proportion to the degree of their faith. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Has Mercury struck thee with his enfeebling rod? or art thou ashamed to let us see how awkward thou art? Dialogues of the Dead The old enfeebling influences continue, while the work is added to them. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Professor Mahaffy has suggested that the decay of genius may be traced to the enfeebling facilities of our complex civilization. Inquiries and Opinions Napoleon says of fortifications, "they are an excellent means of retarding, fettering, enfeebling, and disquieting a conquering foe." Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. Eccentricity may appear harmless and even interesting, but in practice it is found to be a drawback, enfeebling some sides of a character, throwing the judgment at least on some points out of focus. The Education of Catholic Girls The plan proceeds expressly on the idea of enfeebling the regular executory power. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) There was something that acted directly on the nerves, tiring the resolution, enfeebling the will. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Spending many years abroad, he has come to understand other nationalities, without enfeebling his own native faith. Inquiries and Opinions On my arrival in America, I found a fierce contest agitating, dividing and enfeebling the Irish-American population. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 Crawley has devoted a large part of his suggestive work, The Mystic Rose, to showing that, to savage man, sex is a perilous, dangerous, and enfeebling element in life, and, therefore, sinful. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society "I know you have," replied the other, with enfeebling emphasis. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Never will common sense have the chance to manifest itself in those who permit such ephemeral and enfeebling impressions to implant themselves in their souls. Common Sense, How to Exercise It And in like manner the sin which taints my nature taints my whole nature, perverting the conscience, enfeebling the will, and darkening the understanding. The Teaching of Jesus So, in short, superstition does an immense harm by enfeebling rational ways of thinking; it does a little good by accidentally endorsing rational conclusions in one or two matters. On Compromise Michelangelo's poems and letters, and the whole series of his works in fresco and marble, suggest no single detail which is sensuous, seductive, enfeebling to the moral principles. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti But the horrors of peace, if not so obvious, come nearer to our daily life, and we are naturally terrified at its softness, its monotony, and its enfeebling relaxation. Essays in Rebellion On the simple ground of the enfeebling of the male intellect, I rest this humble appeal to the highest Authorities to reconsider the regulations of Female education. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Not for a moment, even without distinctly definite aim, was she in danger of the creeping paralysis that is epidemic among the rich, enfeebling and slowing down mental and physical activity. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise On the simple ground of the enfeebling of the Male intellect, I rest this humble appeal to the highest Authorities to reconsider the regulations of Female education. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) In the description of the death of Moses the same habit of enfeebling the majesty of the Biblical text to suit the current taste is manifested. Josephus Colonel Sommerton saw this, and it added an enfeebling increment to his mental torpor. Southern Lights and Shadows This negative sort of retort had an enfeebling effect upon Mrs. Blair. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life The warm bath tub is enfeebling and degenerative, despite the cold spray later, while the free swim in cold water is most invigorating. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene It feeds poetic fountains of plentiful yield, but insipid and enfeebling flow, the mere sweat of weakness under the stimulus of self-admiration. Home Again Rheumatic complaints followed, permanently enfeebling a body weak from infancy. The Life of John Clare It is the most extraordinary and most universal system of taxation ever devised, and it is carried out at the cost of weakening and enfeebling the people of all the purely agricultural countries. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished First, because it is more lasting, and there is less hope to escape from it; and, second, because every commonwealth seeks to add to its own strength by weakening and enfeebling all beside. Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius I hope that Mr. Lincoln will know how to resist these enfeebling influences. The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. He saw that possession generates artificial and enfeebling wants, overlaying and smothering the God-given necessities of our nature, whence alone issue golden hopes and manly endeavors. Home Again The nobility, reduced to moderation by the enfeebling consequences of extensive foreign wars, became comparatively impotent in their attempted efforts against domestic freedom. Holland The History of the Netherlands The poisonous nicotine, the active element of tobacco, exerts a destructive influence upon the stomach digestion, enfeebling the vigor of the muscular walls of that organ. A Practical Physiology It is true that very often the enfeebling of this great faculty is due to the excessive tenderness of those who have allowed us to contract pernicious habits. Serious Hours of a Young Lady Mediaevalism can hardly be called anything but a rather enfeebling dream. Lectures and Essays The education of a prince is not necessarily enfeebling. The Eve of the French Revolution In this respect she had done injustice to his mind, which had been kept in subjection and deprived of its ordinary strength and courage, by the enfeebling fondness of his heart. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky He gives the stanza which comes last in Scott's copy, and is too bad and enfeebling to be attributed to Scott's pen. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy Its activity is often developed and exercised at the expense of the will, by diminishing and enfeebling the power and influence of the latter. Serious Hours of a Young Lady Is it an hallucination, then, that possesses me—some subtle disturbance of the nerve-centres sapping the sources of will-power, enfeebling even the physical energies? The Gates of Chance The people who lay gasping for breath in the famine-stricken city, and the blades of grass that drooped languidly on the dry sward beyond the walls, owned the enfeebling influence alike. Antonina My second failure was a more enfeebling disaster than the first. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky It was evident that she offered the final but charming illustration of the enfeebling listlessness of Sidon. A First Family of Tasajara "Gods of wax . . . . . . for enfeebling the limbs of people," which were "great crimes of death, the great abomination of the land." Morning Star And when art is merely sensuous, it is enfeebling and demoralizing rather than strengthening or elevating. Character Civilization is tiresome and enfeebling, unless we occasionally give it the relish of a little outlawry, and approach, in imagination at least, the zest of a gypsy life. Oldport Days Hunger, however, was far less enfeebling to Gibbie than to one accustomed to regular meals, and he was in no anxiety about either when or what he should eat. Sir Gibbie His mind was naturally feeble; and he had received an enfeebling education. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The plan proceeds expressly on the idea of enfeebling the regular executory power. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. The buildings and their traditions keep astir in his mind whatsoever is gracious; the climate, enfolding and enfeebling him, lulling him, keeps him careless of the sharp, harsh, exigent realities of the outer world. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Patty's tears flowed faster at the first sound of sympathy in Waitstill's voice, for self-pity is very enfeebling. Story of Waitstill Baxter |
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