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。
• They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
  他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
• 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。
• The arrears payments were even more crippling.
  偿付欠款造成了更为严重的损害。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。