cripple
cripple 英 [ˈkrɪpl] 美 [ˈkrɪpəl]
vt. 削弱;使跛;使残废 n. 跛子;残废 adj. 跛的;残废的
进行时:crippling 过去式:crippled 过去分词:crippled 第三人称单数:cripples 名词复数:cripples
- To cripple is to leave someone unable to walk. Terrible car accidents, for example, can sometimes cripple their victims.
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- vt. 削弱;使跛;使残废
- n. 跛子;残废
- adj. 跛的;残废的
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1. I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple.
我被家庭和朋友当作一个恐怕是毫无希望的跛子抛弃了。
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2. This is tiny in a time when megabytes are given away in memory sticks as promotional items but, over hours of continuous operation, even such small losses can cripple an application.
在记忆棒增量分发数兆字节内存时,一次泄漏是微不足道的,但是连续操作数小时后,即使如此小的泄漏也会削弱应用程序。
- cripple (n.) Old English crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (source also of Old Frisian kreppel, Middle Dutch cropel, German krüppel, Old Norse kryppill). Possibly also related to Old English creopan "to creep" (creopere, literally "creeper," was another Old English word for "crippled person").
- cripple (v.) mid-13c., "to move slowly," from cripple (n.). Meaning "make a cripple of, lame" is from early 14c. Related: Crippled; crippling.
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