hobbling

英 [ˈhɒblɪŋ]

美 [ˈhɑːblɪŋ]

v.  蹒跚; 跛行; 捆绑(马等的)两腿(以防其走失); 阻止; 妨碍
hobble的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 跛行;一瘸一拐地走
  If youhobble, you walk in an awkward way with small steps, for example because your foot is injured.
  1. He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table...
     他慢慢地站起来，一瘸一拐地走到咖啡桌旁。
  2. The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble.
     肿胀已经开始消退，他能忍着痛一瘸一拐地走了。
• VERB 妨碍;阻碍
  Tohobblesomething or someone means to make it more difficult for them to be successful or to achieve what they want.
  1. The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
     1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。

双语例句

• A cunning strategist, Swain was decorated after every battle he fought, regularly hobbling in contemplation at the front of the assault.
  一个狡猾的谋略家，通常在正面战场上一瘸一拐的踱步沉思，每一场战斗之后都受章封赏。
• A month later, everybody began to worry about the safety of the third young man. However, he finally showed up, hobbling along in rage.
  一个月过去了，大家都开始为第三位年轻人的安危担心，他却一步一蹭，衣不蔽体地回来了。
• Such a reprisal of its response to the financial crisis in 2009 would merely exacerbate the credit fatigue that is hobbling its dynamism.
  2009年那种对金融危机报复性的回应只会加剧信贷疲劳症，侵蚀经济活力。
• Failure to develop an energy policy means we can look forward to a lifetime of enriching the obscene sheiks, of wasting treasure and blood to defend the Middle East while impoverishing ordinary Americans and hobbling our economy.
  如果能源政策失败就意味着我们一辈子要富足那个猥琐的酋长，一辈子要浪费钱财和鲜血去保卫中东，而同时我们国民贫穷，经济不前。
• David-whose leg is in a cast after he snapped his Achilles in a match last month-has been seen hobbling around the pool and beach using crutches.
  大卫-一个演员的腿折断后，他在比赛中他的致命的最后一个月-已经看到步履蹒跚的游泳池和海滩周围使用拐杖。
• He was hobbling [ staggering] along.
  他晃晃悠悠地往前走。
• All this pain was in order to conform to a specific idea of beauty, that of women hobbling around on tiny feet.
  所有这些疼痛都是为了遵循美女的特定概念，即，女士踮着小脚行走。
• Osborne brought Bedell through the crisis, Ten days later Bedell was hobbling on pair of crutches that Dick had made for him.
  十天后，彼得尔就能拄着迪克为他制作的拐杖一瘸一拐地行走了。
• Japan is suffering because demand has fallen in the deficit consumer nations, hobbling it along with much of East Asia.
  赤字消费国需求的下降，使日本遭遇困境，阻碍了日本以及大多数东亚国家的发展。
• "Hobbling down stairs with heedless haste, I set my foot full in a pail of water"( Richard Steele).
  “鲁莽地匆匆蹦跳着下了楼梯，我把双脚全部泡进了水桶里”（里查德·斯蒂尔）。