Disuse

(v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

(v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.

(n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.

艾维斯编辑

• But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• They have been so long in disuse in England, that at present I know no English name for them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This state of the eyes is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Abuse and disuse characterize the older view of the state: guardian and censor it has been, provider but grudgingly. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The latter went into disuse many years ago. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Some, perhaps a great, effect may be attributed to the increased use or disuse of parts. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It is true that the Gauls made use of an instrument nearly two thousand years before, but this contrivance fell into disuse with the decline of the Gallic fields. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Thus the young will not be modified, or will be modified only in a slight degree, through the effects of the increased use or disuse of parts. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But we learn from the study of our domestic productions that the disuse of parts leads to their reduced size; and that the result is inherited. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In many cases habit or use and disuse have probably come into play. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It appears probable that disuse has been the main agent in rendering organs rudimentary. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In some cases we might easily put down to disuse modifications of structure which are wholly, or mainly due to natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Treadles were subsequently applied, but after a time the machine fell into disuse and was apparently forgotten. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is scarcely possible that disuse can go on producing any further effect after the organ has once been rendered functionless. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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