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

• 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。
• 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。
• You are destroying, you are crippling the other.
  你是在摧毁，损坏人们。
• The pictures triggered public outrage and a crippling four-month strike over a steep rise in extrajudicial killings.
  这些照片引起公众对法外处决激增的怒火，以及4个月的断断续续的罢工。
• It will have crippling effect on you in later life.
  这对你以后的生活会留下极其严重的影响。
• 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。
• Is there a cure? I heard this is a crippling disease.
  这病有办法根治吗？我听说这是一种会使人残废的病。
• Crippling fines have been imposed on unsanctioned demonstrations.
  未经批准的抗议活动遭到了巨额罚款。
• But that ignores the necessity for sufficient deficit reduction to win market confidence and thereby avoid crippling interest rates.
  但这忽视了削减足够多的赤字以赢得市场信心、从而避免利率达到有害水平的必要性。
• They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
  他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。