emasculated是什么意思？

emasculated

英[ɪ'mæskjʊleɪtɪd] 美[ɪ'mæskjʊleɪtɪd]

• adj. 去势的，柔弱的，被阉割的；

例句

• The law against speeding is emasculated by fining offenders only five dollars. 禁止超速的条款因罚款只有五块钱而毫无功效.
• The editor emasculated the speech by cutting out its strongest passages. 编辑把这篇演说最强有利的段落删掉而使它失去了其雄壮气势.
• Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised. 左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。
• Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend. 托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕，但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。
• Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised... 左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  削弱;使势力减弱;使无效
  If someone or something is emasculated, they have been made weak and ineffective.
  例句
  Left-wing dissidents have been emasculated and marginalised... 左派持不同政见者已经遭到削弱和排挤。 The company tried to emasculate the unions... 公司试图削弱工会的力量。
• VERB
  使缺乏男子气；使柔弱
  If a man is emasculated, he loses his male role, identity, or qualities.
  例句
  Tosh was known to be a man who feared no-one, yet he was clearly emasculated by his girlfriend. 托什是出了名的天不怕地不怕，但是他明显被他的女朋友驯服帖了。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. (of a male animal) having the testicles removed;
  "a cut horse"