rejuvenate
英 [rɪˈdʒuː.vən.eɪt]
美 [rɪˈdʒuː.vən.eɪt]
- vt. 使年轻;使更新;使恢复精神;使复原
- vi. 复原;变年轻
1. young => junior => juven- "young".
2. 尤文图斯: 罗马的青年之神(Roman god of youth)。后来意大利的一个足球俱乐部因此意取了此名。
rejuvenate 使再年轻re-,再,重新,juven-,年青,词源同 juvenile,young.
- rejuvenate (v.)
- 1807, irregular formation from re- "again" + Latin juvenis (see young (adj.)) + -ate (2). Related: Rejuvenated; rejuvenating.
- 1. Shelley was advised that the Italian climate would rejuvenate him.
- 有人建议雪莱去意大利,那里的天气会使他恢复活力。
- 2. The government pushed through schemes to rejuvenate the inner cities.
- 政府大力推行改造内城贫民区的计划。
- 3. The mountain air will rejuvenate you.
- 山里的空气会使你恢复活力.
- 4. Physicians have tried for centuries to rejuvenate ailing paints with animal organs.
- 医生已试验了几个世纪用动物器官为病人做器官移植.
- 5. Only barbarians are able to rejuvenate a world in the throes of collapsing civilization.
- 的确,只有野蛮人才能使一个在垂死的文明中挣扎的世界年轻起来.