atrophied

英 [ˈætrəfid]

美 [ˈætrəfid]

v.  萎缩; 衰退
atrophy的过去分词和过去式

过去式：atrophied　

医学

COCA.36377

柯林斯词典

• VERB （肌肉或身体其他部分）萎缩
  If a muscle or other part of the bodyatrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.
  1. Scott's muscle atrophied, his leg became stunted, and he was left lame...
     斯科特的肌肉萎缩,一条腿发育不完全，成了个瘸子。
  2. Patients exercised their atrophied limbs in the swimming pool.
     病人们在泳池里锻炼萎缩的四肢。
  3. Atrophyis also a noun.
     
  4. ...exercises to avoid jelling and atrophy of cartilage.
     防止软骨硬化和萎缩而进行的锻炼
• VERB （事物的尺寸、程度、影响力等由于不使用或未受到保护而）变小，退化
  If somethingatrophies, its size, degree, or effectiveness decreases because it is not used or protected.
  1. If you allow your mind to stagnate, this particular talent will atrophy...
     如果你老不用脑，那么这一特殊才能就会退化。
  2. Many hoped he would renew the country's atrophied political system.
     很多人都期望他能使该国萎靡的政治体系振作起来。
  3. Atrophyis also a noun.
     
  4. ...levels of consciousness which are nowadays usurped by television and in danger of atrophy.
     如今被电视所侵占而可能会逐渐丧失的思想意识

英英释义

adj

• (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
  1. partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm
  Synonym:wasteddiminished

双语例句

• But if your self-discipline has atrophied, it can seem an almost insurmountable hurdle.
  但是如果你的自制力衰退的话，那么它就好像是一个几乎不可逾越的障碍一样。
• Learning how they manage long periods of inactivity without calcium loss or atrophied muscles may help prevent osteoporosis and have implications for long-term spaceflight.
  了解它们如何能长时间静止不动却不会导致钙流失或者肌肉萎缩，将会有助于防止骨质疏松症，而且还会对长期的航天飞行活动方面有所启示。
• Anatole France said that the great danger of increasing age was that the feelings atrophied, and we mistook the sensation for the growth of wisdom.
  安纳托利·法兰西说年岁增长的最大危险就在于将日渐怠惰的感觉误认为是智随年长。
• From the way he lowered his eyelids when we massaged the atrophied limbs, we knew he endured excruciating pain, but not once did he ever try to bite the hands of those who cared for him.
  我们按摩它那萎缩的腿时，从它耷拉着的眼皮，可以知道它在忍受着难熬的疼痛，可它从来都没咬过按摩它的手。
• This being the case, their bodies had atrophied over the winter, and there was no meat left on them, nor anything else that even a Frenchman would have recognized as edible.
  因此，经过一冬天的消耗，它们的躯体已经很干瘪了，身上根本没有肉，就算是法国人也找不出有什么可吃的地方。
• In less than three months, Italy has changed from a country whose fiscal and economic ailments are difficult but not impossible to cure into a country whose atrophied and self-serving political system threatens to destroy the eurozone.
  不到3个月前，意大利的财政和经济疾患虽然棘手，但并非无药可救。但现在，其自私无能的政治系统已经威胁着整个欧元区的存亡。
• Many hoped he would renew the country's atrophied political system.
  很多人都期望他能使该国萎靡的政治体系振作起来。
• His leg muscles atrophied while he was walking with crutches.
  他靠拐杖行走，腿部肌肉萎缩了。
• This atrophied after Lemuria's fall and became the pineal gland still found in modern humans.
  这是利莫里亚下沉后的衰退，松果腺仍然可以从现代人中找到。
• Patients exercised their atrophied limbs in the swimming pool.
  病人们在泳池里锻炼萎缩的四肢。