crippling

英 [ˈkrɪplɪŋ]

美 [ˈkrɪplɪŋ]

adj.  (疾病等)严重损害健康的，致残的; 有严重危害的
v.  使残废; 使跛; 使成瘸子; 严重毁坏(或损害)
cripple的现在分词

现在分词：crippling　

CET6TOEFL

Collins.1 / BNC.14078 / COCA.14100

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (疾病等)严重损害健康(或身体)的
  Acripplingillness or disability is one that severely damages your health or your body.
  1. Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases...
     关节炎和风湿病是会严重损害身体健康的主要疾病。
  2. They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
     他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
• ADJ 有严重危害的
  If you say that an action, policy, or situation has acripplingeffect on something, you mean it has a very serious, harmful effect.
  1. The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small American high-tech firms...
     高昂的资金成本严重影响了美国的很多小型高科技公司。
  2. The American military presence on the islands had suffered a crippling blow.
     该群岛上的美国部队受到了严重打击。

英英释义

adj

• that cripples or disables or incapacitates
  1. a crippling injury
  Synonym:disablingincapacitating

双语例句

• You are destroying, you are crippling the other.
  你是在摧毁，损坏人们。
• By responding to WHO's call, governments can reduce the toll of fatal and crippling heart attacks, strokes, cancers and respiratory diseases that have become increasingly prevalent among women.
  如果各国政府响应世卫组织的号召，即可减少在妇女中越来越普遍的致命或致残的心脏病、中风、癌症和呼吸系统疾病的影响。
• He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
  他21岁时突患致残重疾。
• The American military presence on the islands had suffered a crippling blow.
  该群岛上的美国部队受到了严重打击。
• You have put us in a wonderful position to strike them a crippling blow.
  你让我们有很好的机会教训他们。
• Today we consider foot binding ugly and crippling; back then they consider it beautiful and elevating.
  今天我们认为扎脚丑陋和使人伤残，当年人们认为扎脚美丽和使人高贵。
• They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
  他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
• The arrears payments were even more crippling.
  偿付欠款造成了更为严重的损害。
• Parts of the country are continuing to suffer from a crippling drought.
  我国的部分地区正持续遭受严重的干旱。
• Falling prices would make their already crippling burdens even heavier.
  价格不断下降会使得他们本难以支撑的负担更加沉重。