今日开始每天学习一个单词,cripple既可做名词表示"瘸子、跛子”等身体有残疾,又可做动词表示“使残疾”、“使成为跛子”、“严重削弱”、“使陷于瘫痪”等,比lame更正式,语气更强,衍生词有“crippled”、“crippling”(严重损害身体的),词典中的英英义“to cause serious damage to someone or something, making them weak and not effective”。cripple英英释义“to cause great damage to something”,作名词常表示“瘸子”(有冒犯的意思),作动词也常用来表示“严重破坏(组织、体系)”,当我们想表示“破坏”时,除了用damage...badly,还可以使用cripple。
例句:The war has crippled the economy.战争使经济瘫痪。
例句:
1)翻译
台风山竹严重破坏了香港和广东地区的电力供应和通讯服务。The electricity supply and communication services in Hongkong and Guangdong were crippled by the Typhoon Mangkhut.
2)造句
场景:领导的决定让她近几月的努力化为乌有。
The decisions of the leadship had crippled her efforts in recent months.
例句摘录:
Economists has feared the strike would cripple the US retail and manufacturing, parts of the economy.
To really damage these oil exports and cripple the Western economies is very difficult to do.