a debilitating climate

不宜人的气候.

Huge debts are debilitating their economy

沉重的债务大大削弱了他们的经济

It has been estimated that at any given moment a quarter of mankind is afflicted with severely debilitating protozoan diseases

估计人类的四分之一深受原生动物性疾病之害。

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): Sudden debilitating fatigue of unknown cause.

慢性疲劳症候群:不明原因的突然虚弱疲劳

It is among the most powerful naturally occurring compounds in its ability to reduce pain and distress; its calming effect protects the system against exhaustion in traumatic shock, internal hemorrhage, congestive heart failure, and other debilitating conditions.

其镇痛麻醉作用居自然界中天然化合物之首，其镇静安神作用可用来防止因外伤性休克、内出血、郁血性心脏衰竭和各种消耗性疾病所引起的衰竭。

While malaria is debilitating and people would have done less work, he says, “they would have moved to the hilltops because mosquitoes don’t like to climb mountains.”

虽然疟疾可以使人虚弱，并因此使人们疏于工作。但是他说:“人们本来可以搬到小山顶上去生活嘛，因为蚊子不喜欢爬山。”

He loathed being ill and was upset by the debilitating effect of the disease and the resulting diminishing of his physique

他憎恨生病，并且，疾病的折磨导致他体质虚弱，体格下降，使他苦闷不堪。

It also gave us a chance to shape a new concept of international order even while emerging from a debilitating war and a wrenching decade at home

它也使我们有机会对国际格局形成一个新概念，虽然我们那时刚刚从一场大伤元气的战争中和国内极度痛苦的十年中解脱出来。

Thys-Jacobs and colleagues at 11 other medical centers studied 466 women with debilitating PMS in a trial of calcium’s ability to relieve their monthly discomfort

泰思-雅可布斯与其他医疗中心的11位同行对466名受累于经前综合症的妇女进行研究，以试验钙对缓解其每月不适的作用。

Those who have experienced sciatic nerve pain know that it can be excruciating and often debilitating , and doctors usually recommend a few days to a few weeks of bed rest to treat this fairly common injury

曾经患过坐骨神经痛的病人知道，这种病会让人感到剧烈的疼痛，而且常常浑身无力。对这种常见病，医生一般建议病人卧床休息几天到几个星期。

The findings are controversial, with a number of doctors questioning whether debilitating conditions such as obesity and chronic fatigue syndrome--also known as ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis)--are true illnesses

这些发现很具争议性，因为有一些医生对这个问题持怀疑态度，认为身体的不健康状态，例如过度肥胖和慢性疲劳综合症(亦称ME--myalgic encephalomyelitis)并非真正意义上的疾病。

||1:There are a few quibbles.||2:Mr Cave’s repeated claim that the quest for immortality drives every human activity feels overdone.||3:Others might dispute his definition of immortality itself.||4:Mr Cave’s chief argument against the desirability of living for ever (even assuming it is possible) is the familiar one of boredom.||5:As the uncountable billions of years tick away, the argument runs, even the most vivacious will come to realise that they have done everything there is to do, hundreds of times.||6:With yet more billions of years looming ahead they will be struck down with a debilitating ennui.

||1:不过，凯夫的调查还是存在小瑕疵。||2:他一直宣称，对永生的追求主导了人类所有活动，这未免让人觉得有些夸大。||3:他对于永生自身的定义还存在争议。||4:对于长生的好处（姑且认为这是可能的），凯夫最主要的辩驳观点是人们非常熟悉的：厌烦。||5:该论点认为：随着数十亿年逐渐过去，即使是最有活力的人/永生者也会慢慢意识到自己已经做完了所有可做的事，而且每一件都做了不下数百次了。||6:未来还有数十亿年要面对，这些永生者将会感到一种压倒一切的无聊感。

||1:Barack Obama appointed him as his presidential envoy, but Mr Holbrooke held little authority.||2:Senior officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan, who resented his abrasive personality and his relative lack of knowledge of the region, kept him at arm’s length.||3:At home, American generals and the CIA ran the show.||4:Most debilitating , Mr Obama, whose distaste for self-promotion is well documented, treated his envoy with a coolness not unlike that shown by many of the subcontinent’s leaders.

||1:霍尔布鲁克先生由巴拉克·奥巴马指定为自己的总统特使，但手上几乎没有什么权力。||2:阿富汗和巴基斯坦的高级官员都看不惯他蛮横粗暴的性格，指责他对当地相关情况不了解，对他敬而远之。||3:而美国国内事务由将军和中央情报局掌管。||4:最削弱他意志的是，人人皆知奥巴马先生最讨厌像霍尔布鲁克先生这样毛遂自荐的人，因而总统对他的特使态度冷淡，和次大陆国家领导人常有的不冷不热的态度没什么两样。

||1:America’s politics seem ill-prepared for such reforms.||2:Democrats, riding populist outrage at the rich, want to protect the welfare state and pay for it through tax rises on the wealthy.||3:On the right, well-heeled Americans fume that nearly half of all households pay no federal income tax.||4:Mr Bartlett’s political diagnosis is perhaps the book’s least satisfying aspect.||5:Little will be accomplished until congressional Republicans are willing to compromise, he writes, and America’s best chance may be to elect a reform-minded Republican president and a Democratic Congress—and to hope.||6:In the end, the weaknesses in America’s tax code are not half as debilitating as those in its politics.

||1:面临税制改革，美国政府似乎准备不足。||2:民主党将平民主义的愤怒发泄到富人身上，他们想要保住福利制度，通过对富人增税解决这个问题。||3:在右派这边，富有的美国人愤怒地说，将近一半的美国家庭不缴联邦所得税。||4:巴特莱特先生对美国政治的诊断也许是该书是不能令人满意的地方。||5:他在书中写道，除非国会中的共和党人愿意作出妥协，否则很难取得进展，美国最好的局面可能是，由一位具有改革精神的共和党人做总统，由民主党人领导国会。||6:他希望如此。最后，美国税典中的缺点所带来的负面影响远不及美国政治大。

||1:The next step, commercialisation, is planned for the autumn.||2:With nearly 500,000 asthma-related hospital admissions every year in America alone (often involving cases where the disease could have been properly controlled by drugs, but was not), the market could be large.||3:Alternatively, Dr Van Sickle’s old friends at the CDC or some other medical-research agency might think the data sufficiently valuable to buy and distribute the things themselves.||4:Either way, the upshot would be better lives for patients in the short term and, if all went well, a true understanding of the triggers of this debilitating and occasionally life-threatening condition.

||1:下一步的商业化计划在秋季进行。||2:鉴于仅在美国每年就有近50万与哮喘有关的病人入院治疗（通常涉及的病例是该病可用药物进行适当的控制，但不是所有病例），市场可能很大。||3:另外，在美国疾病控制和预防中心或其它医疗研究机构工作的凡?西克尔博士的老朋友们可能会觉得这些数据有足够的购买价值，并把它们用到自身的研究上。||4:无论哪种方式，其结果都将会在短期内让患者的生活更好，且一切顺利的话，人们就会真正了解这种令人衰弱、有时危及生命的病症的诱因。

The novel is set in 1972, a pivotal year in post-war British history, when a series of bloody IRA bombings and debilitating miners’ strikes seemed to presage the political and economic chaos that would mark the rest of the decade. Farther afield, the cold war stumbled on, as East and West battled for cultural influence.

小说的故事设定在1972年，英国历史上战后的最关键的一年，一连串的北爱尔兰共和军的流血爆炸，虚弱矿工的罢工似乎预示着政治和经济的大乱，那混乱也许充斥那个年代的剩下的整个时间。远方，冷战磕磕碰碰地继续着，就像东西方为了文化影响战斗一样。

The debilitating vacuum of the past eight months should at last be filled.

八个月虚弱的真空状态有望得以填补。

But the meeting was widely interpreted as a sign that they were backing away from a debilitating fight over the Chinese currency.

但此次会晤被广泛解读为一个信号，即双方都在围绕人民币汇率展开的令人焦虑的争执中放低了姿态。

Their expectations for participation in economic and political life are frustrated by political stasis and debilitating greed.

但是他们参与经济和政治生活的热情被政治高压严重挫伤而不再那么有野心。

But the risk for Israel is no smaller: that it will get dragged into a debilitating and open-ended campaign to free its soldiers.

但是以色列面临的风险也毫不逊色：它将陷人一场耗时费力、结局难料的营救士兵的战役。

Of course, science doesn’t actually know for certain whether cellphones are safe or whether they cause debilitating brain tumors.

当然，科学并不能一定确定知道手机是否安全，或者手机是否能引起使人虚弱的脑瘤。

A loss of confidence in leadership can be extremely debilitating .

对领导层失去信心可能是极其令人丧气的。

The bill would also stop insurers from denying coverage to people with debilitating pre-existing conditions.

该议案还将制止保险企业拒绝对身有病疾的人提供保险服务。

Tell someone. Bring it out into the light of day. Shame is debilitating . Confront it head on by telling someone what you did.

告诉给别人。吐露出来。羞愧令人…弱化。告诉给别人你曾做过了什么来直面面对它。

We hear a lot about the risks of lung cancer -- but less about a lung condition that’s just as common and debilitating , called COPD.

关于肺癌的风险因素我们听了很多，但是对于一种同样很常见且催残人的叫做COPD的肺部状况我们却知道得很少。

She could never live a full life again after her debilitating illness set in on her. She was totally dependent on others.

患了从事她变得虚弱的疾病后她就没有充分享受生命的机会了。

Today, top-level cooperation is as much the norm as debilitating factional competition.

今天，高层之间的合作已成规则，用以削弱派系的斗争。

Constant overtime, repetitive assembly line tasks and debilitating overnight shifts can breed a sense of isolation.

经常加班、重复的装配线工作、以及损害身体的夜班，会催生出孤独感。

Many more parents have other debilitating and even deadly illnesses and also have to figure out what to tell their children.

另外有更多人患有消耗性疾病或更加容易致命的疾病，他们也面临解决这个问题的局面。

In the near term, Maguire said the research will shed light on some of the most debilitating neurodegenerative diseases of old age.

马圭尔说，这项研究在近期内会揭示一些最折磨老年人的神经退行性疾病的机理。

debilitating heat

虚火

chronic debilitating disease

n.慢性虚弱症

the debilitating heat is impetuous

虚火妄动