cripples

英 [ˈkrɪplz]

美 [ˈkrɪplz]

v.  使残废; 使跛; 使成瘸子; 严重毁坏(或损害)
n.  伤残人; 残疾人; 跛子; 瘸子
cripple的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 瘸子;残疾人
  A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as acripple.
  1. She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.
     她从一个健康、强壮、爱好运动的年轻女性变成了一个跛子。
• VERB 使残疾;使成为跛子
  If someoneis crippledby an injury, it is so serious that they can never move their body properly again.
  1. Mr Easton was seriously crippled in an accident and had to leave his job...
     伊斯顿先生在一次事故中重度伤残，不得不离职。
  2. He had been warned that another bad fall could cripple him for life...
     医生警告他，如果再次严重摔伤他可能会终身残疾。
  3. He heaved his crippled leg into an easier position.
     他把自己的一条瘸腿抬到一个更加舒服的位置。
• (心理上或情感上)有缺陷的人
  If you describe someone as an emotionalcripple, you mean that they have a particular psychological or emotional problem which prevents them from living a normal life.
• VERB 使(心理上或情感上)出现问题
  If somethingcripplesa person, it causes them severe psychological or emotional problems.
  1. Howard wanted to be a popular singer, but stage fright crippled him...
     霍华德想成为流行歌手，但因怯场而心生畏惧。
  2. I'm not perfect but I'm also not emotionally crippled or lonely.
     我并不完美，但我也没有什么心结，也不孤独。
• VERB 严重毁坏(机器);破坏(组织、体系)
  Tocripplea machine, organization, or system means to damage it severely or prevent it from working properly.
  1. Let's try to cripple their communications...
     我们试着破坏他们的通讯设备吧。
  2. A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country's economy...
     全面切断物品供应会使该国经济陷入瘫痪。
  3. The pilot was able to maneuver the crippled aircraft out of the hostile area.
     飞行员成功地驾驶严重损坏的飞机驶出敌区。

双语例句

• The tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape.
  令人辛酸的逃跑景象。
• Secondly, timely surgical operation to repair the damaged organ and eliminate the factors of lethality and cripples;
  开展急诊手术尽早修复损伤器官，消除致死致残因素；
• Generally, the group launches a "denial of service" ( DDoS) attack, which targets and cripples a specific site.
  通常这个团体会对目标发动一次“阻断服务”（DdoS）攻击，目的是要使某个特定网站瘫痪。
• That cripples or disables or incapacitates.
  导致残废或者丧失机能。
• The globalization process influences the macro-regulation of transitional economies. Trade and investment liberalization, and financial globalization constitute a transmitting mechanism for international economic fluctuation which cripples the effect of fiscal and monetary policies.
  经济全球化进程对转轨国家的宏观调控有重要影响，贸易投资自由化、金融全球化为国际经济波动提供了传导机制，削弱了财政政策、货币政策的效果。
• Americans spend more than$ 1 billion a year on calcium supplements in hopes of staving off osteoporosis, the brittle bone disease that cripples many elderly women and some men.
  美国人一年花费逾10亿美元购买各类钙补充剂，期望能推迟骨质疏松症的发生。骨质疏松症是一种让骨头变脆的疾病，许多老年女性和部分男性都会因骨质疏松致残。
• "Come on, you load of cripples, you can go faster than that!" yelled the coach.
  快点，你们这群跛子，你们完全能够更快些！教练大声吼道。
• Charles is a lonely young man and Amy is a cripples girl on a wheelchair.
  查里是一个孤单的年轻人，艾米是一个坐在轮椅上的跛子女孩。
• Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.
  只有那些年纪较大的男人、残疾人和妇女留了下来，他们整天编织缝纫，加紧种植棉花和玉米，为军队饲养更多的猪羊牛马。
• Staring a burn victims and cripples.
  盯着过往的烧伤患者和跛子们。