When one stitch frays, the fabric is weakened.
一个针脚破了,布料的强度就会减弱。
Their enemy is weakened and a weakened enemy is a good target.
“这些亲俄分子的政敌已经很弱了,所以这个弱敌是个很好的目标”。
When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater.
当一个人的免疫系统被削弱,患病的机会就比较大。
It is a live vaccine, made of a weakened version of the whole malaria parasite.
VOA: special.2010.04.20
So this could be summarized as the law of effect, which is a tendency to perform an action's increased if rewarded, weakened if it's not.
这种行为上的变化被称之为效果律,也就是说,行为倾向随奖励而增加,随惩罚而减少。
The voice,believed to be that of Bin Laden, thus concludes President Obama is a weakened man and powerless to change course in Afghanistan because of "pressure groups."
VOA: standard.2009.09.14
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