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

• 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。
• They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
  他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
• 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。
• But I also know that sanctions without outreach condemnation without discussion can carry forward only a crippling status quo.
  我也知道，如果一味制裁而没有主动接触，如果一味谴责而没有对话，只能保持一个有害的现状。
• 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。
• And some with that dementia also develop crippling symptoms like Gehrig's, gradually losing control of their muscles.
  而痴呆患者中的一些也有类似肌萎缩性侧索硬化症的跛行症状，且逐渐丧失对肌肉的控制。
• He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
  他21岁时突患致残重疾。
• The bad news is that you can't remove IE without crippling your operating system.
  坏消息是你不能无损操作系统地移除ie。
• 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。
• 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。