atrophy

释义

n. 萎缩, 萎缩症\n[医] 萎缩 muscular atrophy 肌肉萎缩

例句

If you don't exercise your muscles, they weaken and atrophy.

如果不锻炼你的肌肉，肌力就削弱和萎缩了。

If compassion can only be activated by sustained attention, which is prevented by fast-cut editing, then the ability to be genuinely moved by another’s story could atrophy.

如果只能通过持续的关注激活同情心，而这种关注又受到快速切断编辑的阻碍，那么，被他人的故事真正打动的能力就会萎缩。