Cripple
['krɪp(ə)l] or ['krɪpl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back.
(verb.) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; 'The accident has crippled her for life'.
(verb.) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; 'This measure crippled our efforts'; 'Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work'.
校對:托妮--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
(a.) Lame; halting.
(v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
(v. t.) To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
安吉拉校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Lame person.
v. a. [1]. Lame, make lame.[2]. Disable, weaken, impair the strength of.
編輯:塞格雷
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Weaken, impair, curtail, cramp, disable
ANT:Strengthen, renovate, augment, liberate, free, ease, enlarge, expedite
整理:莱克格斯
解釋/意思:
n. a lame person.—adj. lame.—v.t. to make lame: to lame: disable impair the efficiency of.—ns. Cripp′ledom; Cripp′ling a prop set up as a support against the side of a building.
艾琳校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He is now helpless, indeed--blind and a cripple. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What use was it for me, a wretched cripple, to go back to England or to make myself known to my old comrades? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- And yet, wretched cripple as I made myself by this act of homage to Dora, I walked miles upon miles daily in the hope of seeing her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I am a cripple, you know. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But then Anselmo got a cripple. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But a cripple! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The young cripple rose and limped towards the fire; he had left his crutch near the mantelpiece. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- France was humiliated and crippled. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Why a thousand people are not run over and crippled every day is a mystery that no man can solve. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Ah, they were his old friends, but badly crippled. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- My crippled strength! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- For the burning of the chief city seems to have stimulated rather than crippled her energies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman, my mistress, my friend, my all. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Cripples,' said Charlotte. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- None,' replied the landlord of the Cripples; for it was he. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- At the Cripples? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It must be a paradise for cripples, for verily a man has no use for legs here. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But if you would see the very heart and home of cripples and human monsters, both, go straight to Constantinople. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Three Cripples,' repeated Noah, 'and a very good sign too. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The cripples of Europe are a delusion and a fraud. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The effect of this situation in crippling the teacher's sense of humor has not received the attention which it deserves. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The crippling stones of the pavement, with their many little reservoirs of mud and water, had no footways, but broke off abruptly at the doors. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It is possible to induce undue and crippling dependence upon sense-presentations. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
埃斯特尔校對