| 单词 | affected |
| 释义 | affected (once / 136 pages) 1adj 2adj Something that's affected is influenced or acted upon. If a bottle of ointment says "apply to the affected area," you should put the medication only on the parts of your skin that touched the poison ivy. One of the most common vocabulary mix-ups is effect and affect: effect is usually a noun, and affect is usually a verb that means "to influence" of "act upon." Affected is the adjective form of the verb. After a flood, affected homeowners might try to get insurance. A sad movie might leave you deeply affected. The word can also refer to behavior that's done only to impress someone: if you're acting affected, you might use big, fake melodramatic gestures. WORD FAMILYaffected: affectedest, affectedly, affectedness, ill-affected, unaffected+/affect: affectation, affected, affecting, affectional, affective, affects, disaffect/affectation: affectations/affecting: affectingly, unaffecting/affectional: affectionally/affective: affectively/disaffect: disaffected, disaffecting, disaffection, disaffects/disaffection: disaffections/unaffected: unaffectedly, unaffectedness USAGE EXAMPLESA Pemex spokesman said relatively few gasoline stations were affected, although protesters temporarily blocked storage terminals, delaying the delivery of gasoline to retail points. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) It said that the problem affected about 1% of the requests its servers processed during the glitch period. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) But the general fund also is financed by income and sales taxes, which also are greatly affected by oil prices. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj acted upon; influenced Syn|Ant impressed deeply or markedly affected or influenced smitten, stricken, struck(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming stage-struckinfatuated with or enthralled by the theater especially the desire to act subjectlikely to be affected by something takenbe affected with an indisposition wonder-struckaffected by or overcome with wonder moved, stirred, touchedbeing excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion unaffected undergoing no change when acted upon immune(usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence superior(often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by unimpressednot moved to serious regard uninfluenced, unswayed, untouchednot influenced or affected unaffected, unmoved, untouchedemotionally unmoved 2adj being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion 2Syn|Ant moved, stirred, touched emotional of more than usual emotion sickdeeply affected by a strong feeling unaffected, unmoved, untouched emotionally unmoved unaffectedundergoing no change when acted upon unemotionalunsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion adj speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression Syn|Ant unnatural agonistic, strained struggling for effect artificial, contrived, hokey, stiltedartificially formal constrained, forced, strainedlacking spontaneity; not natural elocutionary(used of style of speaking) overly embellished manneredhaving unnatural mannerisms plummy(of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich studiedproduced or marked by conscious design or premeditation unaffected free of artificiality; sincere and genuine lifelike, naturalfree from artificiality unmanneredwithout artificiality; natural unselfconsciousnot self-conscious unstiltedflowing naturally and continuously uncontrived, unstudiednot by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu |
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