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

• 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 that ignores the necessity for sufficient deficit reduction to win market confidence and thereby avoid crippling interest rates.
  但这忽视了削减足够多的赤字以赢得市场信心、从而避免利率达到有害水平的必要性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。