[in'vælid]
invalid
a. 无效的,伤残的
n. 病人,残疾者

词形变化:

副词:invalidly 名词:invalidity 动词过去式:invalided 过去分词:invalided 现在分词:invaliding 第三人称单数:invalids

例句与用法:

  1. His claim to ownership is invalid.
    他的所有权是无效的.
  2. Nobody looks after the invalid.
    没人照顾这个病人。
  3. The girl spent all her spare time to take after her invalid mother.
    这个女孩把她所有的业余时间都用来照顾长期生病的母亲。
  4. This ticket has passed its expiration date, and so it is now invalid.
    这张票已过了有效期,现在作废了。
  5. He never fully recovered, and had to spend the rest of his life as an invalid.
    他没能完全康复,于是不得不成了一名残疾者度过余生。

英英解释:

名词 invalid:

  1. someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
  2. 同义词:shut-in

动词 invalid:

  1. force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen
  2. injure permanently
  3. 同义词:disable, incapacitate, handicap

形容词 invalid:

  1. having no cogency or legal force
  2. no longer valid