ef·fete /ɛˈfit, ɪ-/
 (a.)筋疲力盡的,疲憊的,衰微的
 Ef·fete a.  No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.
    Effete results from virile efforts.   --Mrs. Browning
    If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones.   --Burke.
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 effete
      adj : marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a
            decadent life of excessive money and no sense of
            responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed
            intellectuals" [syn: decadent]