棒球防守英语(attenuate「使减弱；使降低有效力」)

attenuate「使减弱；使低落好效能」

Word of the Day : July 20, 2021

attenuate

使减弱；使低落好效能

verb uh-TEN-yuh-wayt

wd20210720.mp31:56来自E语Tong

Definition

1 : to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken

减弱数目、变小力气、减小轻重或变小代价 ：变小

2 : to reduce the severity, virulence, or vitality of

严峻性低落、毒性减弱或活力低落

3 : to make thin or slender

变瘦或变苗条

4 : to make thin in consistency : rarefy

变稀薄：稀薄

5 : to become thin, fine, or less

变薄、变细或变少

Examples

The use of computers, with their quiet keyboards, in place of typewriters greatly attenuated the noise level of the office.

使用有静音键盘的盘算机代替打字机大大低落了办公室的杂音量。

"Fans who attend Double-A games this year will see a couple of new rules…. During the first half of the season, all infielders must have their feet on the dirt when a pitch is thrown, attenuating the major defensive shifts that have become prevalent in baseball in recent years, and in the season's second half, no shifting will be permitted at all." — Ryan Anderson, The Daily Citizen-News (Dalton, Georgia), 15 Apr. 2021

本年到场双a比赛的球迷将会看到一些新端正....在赛季的前半段，一切内野手在投球时都必需把脚放在地上，以减弱比年来棒球界存在的主要防卫变化，而在赛季的后半段，则不允许任何转移。”

（不懂棒球端正，不晓得对否准确……）

Did You Know?

Attenuate ultimately comes from a combining of the Latin prefix ad-, meaning "to" or "toward," and tenuis, meaning "thin," a pedigree that is in keeping with the English word's current meanings, which all have to do with literal or metaphorical thinning. The word is most common in technical contexts, where it often implies the reduction or weakening of something by physical or chemical means. You can attenuate wire by drawing it through successively smaller holes, for example, or attenuate gold by hammering it into thin sheets. Current evidence dates the term to the 16th century, in which we find many references to bodily humors in need of being attenuated; modern medicine prefers to use the word in reference to procedures that weaken a pathogen or reduce the severity of a disease.

Attenuate 终极来自拉丁语前缀 ad-（意思是“to「向」”或“toward「向」”）和tenuis（意思是“thin「薄」”）的组合，与英语单词的如今涵义一律，都与字面上或隐喻上的变薄有关。 这个词在科武艺语中最稀有，它通常意味着经过物理或化学伎俩变小或减弱某物质。 您可以经过将金属丝不休地拉过更小的孔来使金属丝变细，比如，经过锤击黄金来使它变薄。 现在的证据可以追溯到 16 世纪，我们在此中发觉了很多必要变小的bodily humors的参考材料； 古代医学更喜好使用这个词来指代减弱病原体或减小疾病严峻度的步骤。

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