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

• They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
  他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
• German and UK banks have crippling exposures to Ireland, French and German banks to Greece, Spanish banks to Portugal.
  德国和英国的银行对爱尔兰的风险敞口大得危险，法国和德国银行对希腊、西班牙银行对葡萄牙的情况也一样。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You are destroying, you are crippling the other.
  你是在摧毁，损坏人们。
• He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
  他21岁时突患致残重疾。
• Crippling fines have been imposed on unsanctioned demonstrations.
  未经批准的抗议活动遭到了巨额罚款。
• 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。
• 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。