cripple

【英英釋義】

n. a person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple. 瘸子，殘疾人? offensive?

n. if you describe someone as an emotional cripple, you mean that they have a particular psychological or emotional problem which prevents them from living a normal life. （心理上或情感上）有缺陷的人

v. if someone is crippled by an injury, it is so serious that they can never move their body properly again. 使殘疾，使成為跛子? be v-ed /? V n? /? V-ed

v. if something cripples a person, it causes them severe psychological or emotional problems. 使（心理上或情感上）出現(xiàn)問(wèn)題? V n? /? V-ed

v. to cripple a machine, organization, or system means to damage it severely or prevent it from working properly. 嚴(yán)重毀壞（機(jī)器），破壞（組織、體系） V n? /? V-ed

to cause great damage to something

【詞義深度解析】

cripple作名詞時(shí)，常表示“瘸子”（有冒犯的色彩），作動(dòng)詞時(shí)常表示“使殘疾，使成為跛子；嚴(yán)重破壞（組織、體系）”。當(dāng)我們想表示“破壞”時(shí)，除了用damage...badly，我們可以直接用簡(jiǎn)潔、形象的cripple。

【例句學(xué)習(xí)】

1. The war has crippled the economy.

2. Not long ago floods crippled millions of households in Shouguang, Shandong Province.

3. Stage fright crippled him. 怯場(chǎng)把他搞砸了。

4. The only way to make apartheid work is to cripple the black mind.

apartheid n. 南非曾經(jīng)施行的種族隔離制度

唯一實(shí)現(xiàn)種族隔離制度的方法就是摧毀黑人的心智。

【詞匯運(yùn)用】

臺(tái)風(fēng)山竹（Typhoon Mangkhut）嚴(yán)重破壞了香港和廣東地區(qū)的電力供應(yīng)和通訊服務(wù)。

The typhoon Mangkhut has crippled grid providing and communication services within the district of HongKong and Guangdong. （自己）

Typhoon Mangkhut has crippled the electricity supply and communication services in Hong Kong and Guangdong. （參考翻譯）

分析：參考翻譯的電力供應(yīng)為electricity supply，臺(tái)風(fēng)前沒(méi)有加the，介詞within與in的異同，都需要做功課。

2. 生活場(chǎng)景應(yīng)用

His bad temper has cirppled our good mood during the Spring Festival.