lame
lame 英 [leɪm] 美 [leɪm]
adj. 瘸的；站不住脚的，无说服力的
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- You might describe a limping dog that's lost the use of one of its legs as lame, which means "disabled in a leg or foot."
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- adj. 瘸的；站不住脚的，无说服力的
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1. The soldier is lame from an old wound.
这个士兵由于受过伤而跛足。
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2. Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
听着，我可不像你手下的那些废物。
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3. All our theories sound pretty lame.
我们的理论似乎全都站不住脚。
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4. The lame man needs a stick when he walks.
那跛脚男子走路时需借助拐棍.
- lame (adj.) Old English lama "crippled, lame; paralytic, weak," from Proto-Germanic *lamon "weak-limbed" (source also of Old Norse lami "lame, maimed," Dutch and Old Frisian lam, German lahm "lame"), literally "broken," from PIE root *lem- "to break; broken," with derivatives meaning "crippled" (source also of Old Church Slavonic lomiti "to break," Lithuanian luomas "lame").
- lame (n.) also lamé, "silk interwoven with metallic threads," 1918, from a specialized sense of French lame, which generally meant "thin metal plate (especially in armor), gold wire; blade; wave (of the sea)," from Old French lame "thin strip, panel, blade, sheet, slice" (13c.), from Latin lamina, lamna "thin piece or flake of metal" (see laminate (v.)). The same French word was used in English earlier in armory as "a plate of metal" (1580s).
- lame (v.) "to make lame," c. 1300, from the root of lame (adj.). Compare Old Saxon lemon, Old Frisian lema, Dutch verlammen, German lähmen, Old Norse lemja "thrash, flog, beat; to lame, disable." Related: Lamed; laming.
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