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impotence

/im-puh-tuhns/US // ˈɪm pə təns //

阳痿,阳萎,性无能,阳具

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
    • : chronic inability to attain or sustain an erection for the performance of a sexual act.
    • : sterility, especially in the male.
    • : Obsolete. lack of self-restraint.

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Examples

  • Despite the violence and government impotence in finding the perpetrators, Hazara have exhibited remarkable restraint.

  • This gives the book a feeling of impotence at best and dangerously misdirected blame at worst.

  • The result is safe seats that lead to apathy and voter impotence, leading logically to ever-declining voter turnout.

  • Brinkley explained that despite all the recent advances in medicine, there still was nothing to be done for impotence.

  • That is the height of cynicism, combined with an admission of impotence.

  • Male infertility was extremely stigmatic: it was falsely conflated with impotence.

  • European history also suggests the impotence of criminal law in these matters.

  • In a voice thick with the torturing rage of impotence he gave the order upon which the grim Parisian insisted.

  • One of its characteristic features was the acknowledged impotence of the gods to secure future happiness.

  • Their "lameness" and "ineptness" and "impotence" plainly arose from disinclination alone.

  • During the revolutionary war the French believed that they could reduce England to impotence by ruining her commerce.

  • Must we also consider impotence and sickness a form, because sickness and vice can and do accomplish many things badly?

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