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　

CET6 TOEFL

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

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。
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。
You are destroying, you are crippling the other.
你是在摧毁，损坏人们。
Crippling Blow-Another skill that enhances the attack of the Warriors'weapon of choice.
削弱攻击-另一个通过选择增加战士武器攻击力的技能。
He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
他21岁时突患致残重疾。
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。
They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
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。
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。
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。