effete
adj. 衰老的；疲惫的；（土地）贫瘠的；（动植物）不育的
adj.
虚弱无力的；衰落的；柔弱的；女人气的
英英释义
effete[ i'fi:t ]
adj.marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
"a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
同义词：decadent
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
People said the aristocracy was effete.
人们说贵族阶级已是日薄西山了。
During the middle ages, Greek civilization declined and became effete.
在中世纪期间，希腊文明开始衰落直至衰败。
权威例句
A case of halo nevus with effete melanocytes.Induction of macrophage growth by effete cells
The effete in the heat: heat-related hospital presentations during a ten day heat wave.
The fate of effete epithelial cells at the villus tips of the human small intestine.
Effete-mediated degradation of Cyclin A is essential for the maintenance of germline stem cells in Drosophila.
The Ophthalmic Clinicopathologic Report: An Effete Scientific Genre?
Neutrophils: dead or effete? Cell surface phenotype and implications for phagocytic clearance
A novel mechanism for disposing of effete epithelial cells in the small intestine of guinea pigs
Possible clearance of effete polymorphonuclear leucocytes from synovial fluid by cytophagocytic mononuclear cells: implications for ...
Aggregation of macrophages in the tips of intestinal villi in guinea pigs: their possible role in the phagocytosis of effete epithel...
effete
effete: [17] Latin effētus meant literally ‘that has given birth’. It was a compound adjective, based on the prefix ex- ‘out’ and fētus ‘childbearing, offspring’ (source of English foetus). Its use spread metaphorically first to ‘worn out by giving birth’ and finally to simply ‘exhausted’, the senses in which English originally acquired it. The word’s modern connotations of ‘overrefinement’ and ‘decadence’ did not develop until the 19th century.
effete (adj.)
1620s, "functionless as a result of age or exhaustion," from Latin effetus (usually in fem. effeta) "exhausted, unproductive, worn out (with bearing offspring), past bearing," literally "that has given birth," from a lost verb, *efferi, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + fetus "childbearing, offspring" (see fetus). Figurative use is earliest in English; literal use is rare. Sense of "intellectually or morally exhausted" (1790) led to that of "decadent, effeminate" (by 1850s).
1. During the middle ages, Greek civilization declined and became effete.
在中世纪期间，希腊文明开始衰落直至衰败。
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2. an effete civilization, empire, government, etc
衰落的文明、 没落的帝国、 软弱的政府.
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
3. an effete young man
无精打彩的年轻人.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
4. The final, effete period of the baroque style.
巴洛克风格最后的衰竭时期
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
5. a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility; a group of effete self-professed intellectuals.
钱太多又没有责任感的堕落生活；一群颓废的自由职业知识分子。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
6. Here was I thinking you are a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an effete aristocracy.
我本来还以为你是大自然的新生儿女哪，谁知道可是奄奄绝息的贵族留下来的一枝日暮途穷的孽子儿孙呢！
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. An effete group of self-professed intellectuals.
一群自鸣颓废的知识分子
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
8. The absurd and backward-looking notion of locating a research centre in an effete, rundown, has-been country.
把研究中心设在一个苍老、衰退、过了时的国家，纯属愚蠢，开倒车的想法。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. People said the aristocracy was effete.
人们说贵族阶级已是日薄西山了。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. an effete system of education
衰败的教育制度
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
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