hobble

英 [ˈhɒbl]

美 [ˈhɑːbl]

v.  蹒跚; 跛行; 捆绑(马等的)两腿(以防其走失); 阻止; 妨碍
n.  跛行; 蹒跚;<口/方〉困境

过去式：hobbled　现在分词：hobbling　过去分词：hobbled　第三人称单数：hobbles　复数：hobbles　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14802 / COCA.11703

牛津词典

verb

• 蹒跚；跛行
  to walk with difficulty, especially because your feet or legs hurt
  1. The old man hobbled across the road.
     老人一瘸一拐地穿过马路。
• 捆绑（马等的）两腿（以防其走失）
  to tie together two legs of a horse or other animal in order to stop it from running away
• 阻止；妨碍
  to make it more difficult for sb to do sth or for sth to happen

柯林斯词典

• VERB 跛行;一瘸一拐地走
  If youhobble, you walk in an awkward way with small steps, for example because your foot is injured.
  1. He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table...
     他慢慢地站起来，一瘸一拐地走到咖啡桌旁。
  2. The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble.
     肿胀已经开始消退，他能忍着痛一瘸一拐地走了。
• VERB 妨碍;阻碍
  Tohobblesomething or someone means to make it more difficult for them to be successful or to achieve what they want.
  1. The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
     1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。

英英释义

noun

• the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
  Synonym:hitchlimp
• a shackle for the ankles or feet
  Synonym:fetter

verb

• strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
  1. hobble race horses
  Synonym:hopple
• walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
  1. The old woman hobbles down to the store every day
  Synonym:limpgimphitch
• hamper the action or progress of
  1. The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean

双语例句

• She turned her ankle on the rocks and had to hobble back to camp.
  她在岩石上扭伤了脚踝，不得不跛行回营地。
• I made a one-leg hobble out of the lead rope by putting the end of the lead rope through the bull snap.
  之后，我再将它那一只跛行的脚，再用扣环扣住绳子的另一端。
• Disarray and recriminations within NATO hobble the single most effective potential tool for Western military intervention overseas.
  北约内部的混乱和相互攻讦，让西方海外军事干预仰仗的唯一一个最有效的潜在工具失去了作用。
• At the same time, the value hobble of writers and the narrative diaphragm to the present country lead the elevation of integral creation connotation of local novels.
  同时，作家创作主体的价值困惑以及与当下农村的叙事隔膜导致了乡土小说整体创作意蕴的提升。
• I hurt my foot, and had to hobble home.
  我的脚受了伤，只好一拐一拐地走回家。
• India's inexorably growing power crisis is a bottleneck that threatens to hobble its overall growth rate.
  印度面临不断增长的电力需求，这样的瓶颈让经济总增长率步履维艰。
• The man took heart and, sure enough, on New Years 'Eve he was able to hobble along to a party.
  那人听后振作了精神，果然，除夕时他可以一瘸一拐地去参加晚会了。
• The article holds the view that Small and Medium Enterprises in China are currently still getting into the hobble of serious total quantity insufficiency and structure irrationality.
  本文认为目前我国中小企业融资仍然处于总量严重不足、结构不合理的困境之中。
• I saw her hobble down the aisle.
  我看见她在过道边蹦跳着移动。
• The essential reason is that we do not understand the essence of vacation tourism and the characteristic of vacation theory, tourists and marketing, so that the development gets into a hobble.
  没有充分认识度假旅游休闲的本质和理念特征、消费者特征以及营销特征，是导致度假旅游的发展陷入误区的主要原因。