喜樂美語
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    Cripple is an old word for a person who cannot walk properly or has a serious physical disability. Today, this word is considered old-fashioned and offensive when used to describe a person - most people now say something like 'a person with a disability' instead. You'll still often meet 'cripple' as a VERB, though, and that use isn't offensive - to cripple something means to badly damage it so it can't work properly anymore, like 'the storm crippled the power grid' or 'the injury crippled his career'.

    （舊式、現多視為冒犯）殘障者；（動詞）使嚴重受損、癱瘓

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

crippleadj/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/

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    archaicdatedCrippled.

    • And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
    • Early treatment, and treatment spread over a long period, was the on means of rendering a cripple child fit to mix with its fellows on anything like equal terms, […]

cripplenoun/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/

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    offensiveA person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

    • He returned from war a cripple.
    • I am […]a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
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    A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.

    • Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.
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    A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

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    dialectalScrapple.

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    A rocky shallow in a stream.

crippleverb/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/

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    To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.

    • The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
    • A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.
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    To damage seriously; to destroy.

    • My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
    • But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.
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    To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.

    • With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
    • But the penny was beginning to drop: even a successful railway could be crippled by its capital costs.
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    To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

    • The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
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    slangvideo-gamesTo nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。