And what you are doing, you are enervating, you are weakening the organization over time.

你所做的只是让他们失去活力。

He had once before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by the inanimate; but then it had tended to enervate a passion far sweeter than that which at present pervaded him.

他也曾有的狂热被冷峻的环境压抑下去的感受；但当时要被压抑的情感要比现传遍他全身的这种情感温柔甜蜜得多。

She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.

尽管热带气总是叫人慵懒无力，对她却丝毫没有影响。相反地，库特拉斯太太又精神又世故，行动敏捷果断，这种叫人昏昏欲睡的地带里，谁也想不到她有这么充沛的精力。