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

• 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。
• That might be the price society has to pay to keep the banking system afloat without crippling future taxpayers.
  这或许是社会为使银行体系摆脱困境、同时不致使未来纳税人深陷泥沼所必须付出的代价。
• Take the crippling clashes over coal and iron ore. The role of the state and the judicial system is to act as an arbiter, setting and implementing laws that balance competing claims over the use of land and resources.
  以围绕煤炭和铁矿石爆发的破坏性冲突为例。政府和司法体系的角色是充当仲裁者，制定和执行法律，以平衡各方对土地和资源使用权利的对立主张。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
  他21岁时突患致残重疾。