And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases,
再者，随着精力的衰退，老年人的疲惫感会增长，
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 11 How to grow old

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

decay [dɪ'ke] 词频2 词根: de
vt.& vi. （使）腐烂，腐朽; vi. 衰败，衰退，衰落; n. 腐败、衰退的状态;
💡 de向下+cay落下→向下掉→衰退;腐败
"The decay of the meat could have been prevented by proper refrigeration."
如果经过适当的冷藏,这些肉本来不至于腐烂掉.
近义：molder, putrefy, putresce, rot, spoil, taint
vitality [vai'tæliti] 词频4 词根: 活力
n. 活力;生气;生命力;持久性;
"It was a performance of verve and vitality."
这是一场充满激情与活力的演出。
近义：health, liveness, pep, power, snap, sparkle 反义：puniness, weakening, weariness, exinanition, debility, destructibility
weariness ['wirinis] 词频4
n. 疲倦;困乏;消沉;厌倦;
"I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice."
我从他的声音中察觉出一丝倦意.
近义：heartsickness, apathy, impassiveness, impassivity, impotence, incapacity 反义：immobility, immovability, inaction, inactivity, inertia, interlude
increases
n. 增加量( increase的名词复数 )\\nv. 增加, 增大, 增多( increase的第三人称单数 ); 增强, 增进; [缝纫]放（针）; 增强

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

Why? One difficulty is to construct the agreements.
为什么呢？困难之一是起草这些协议。
By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away.
到12∶01时，那些波动就已经会在1英尺远的地方造成偏差。
Moreover, as soon as new knowledge is acquired, it is now turned to practical account.
而且，新知识一旦获得，便得到实际应用。
but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely be of equal benefit in another,
只知道一种药对一种病有好处，肯定对另一种病也会有好处。
who despised the prejudices and book learning of the Aristotelians,
他蔑视亚里士多德学派的偏见和空洞的书本知识。
Between twelve and eighty years we gradually lose this power;
除在12岁至80岁之间，我们逐渐丧失这种能力。