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

• Zimbabwe is a more recent example of this crippling medical emigration.
  在这场影响严重的医药人才移民潮中，津巴布韦是近期更为突出的案例。
• 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。
• Arthritis is a crippling disease which affects people all over the world.
  关节炎是一种会危害全人类健康的致残性疾病。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You have put us in a wonderful position to strike them a crippling blow.
  你让我们有很好的机会教训他们。
• He has survived direct attacks from the United States and years of crippling international sanctions.
  要知道，卡扎菲躲过了美国的数次直接袭击，而且从残酷的国际制裁中幸存了下来。
• Its profitability is limited by domestic price regulation and a crippling export tax.
  其盈利能力受到国内价格管制和苛刻出口税的限制。