disabused v. 使省悟;解迷惑;释疑;矫正(disabuse 的过去式和过去分词)
- No one could live long in Berlin without being completely disabused of illusions.
没有完全省悟这种幻想,那就没有人能够长时间呆在柏林。 - HAD Ireland’s government expected to be rewarded by investors after caving in to pressure to seek salvation from the European Union and the IMF, it was soon disabused.
要是爱尔兰政府早知道,当它迫于压力而向欧盟和国际货币基金组织(IMF)“负荆请罪”,寻求救赎之后,便能得到投资者的垂青,它早就醒悟过来了。 - And I was disabused of the notion that the zinc lozenges that my family has always used actually had some effect.
我家里常用的锌含化糖片确实有些效果,这个现象也提醒了我,我们人类确实是一个很容易被骗到的种族。
disabused[ adj ]
freed of a mistaken or misguided notion
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some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth
disabuse \dis`a*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disabused}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Disabusing}.] [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf. F.
d['e]sabuser.]
To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from
fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of;
as, to disabuse one of his illusions.
To undeceive and disabuse the people. --South.
If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse
themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,
they will consider this event as an era in their
history. --J. Adams.