crippled [
'kripld]
a. 跛的,拐的,伤残的
- The pilot brought his crippled plane down in a field.
驾驶员把失灵的飞机降落在田地里。 - The ship was crippled in the storm.
那船在暴风雨中受到严重损坏。
crippled[ adj ]
disabled in the feet or legs
<adj.all>
a crippled soldiera game leg
Crippled \Crip"pled\ (kr?p"p'ld), a.
Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. ``The crippled crone.''
--Longfellow.
Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).]
1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
foot; to lame.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
W. Scott.
2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
to be financially crippled.
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey.
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
body politic. --Macaulay.
- And finally, higher interest rates, softer land prices, and tighter restrictions on bank loans to property companies, have crippled the purchasing power of speculator groups.
- Volkswagen and the Madrid government yesterday came close to an agreement in negotiations over state aid for Seat, the German vehicle group's crippled Spanish subsidiary.
- For the Roman Catholic Church, crippled and corrupted by the Communist state, Christmas will be a joyous reawakening of hope after more than four decades of persecution.
- Like the crippled churches that fell before it, San Lorenzo became a victim of indecision.
- Agerpres also quoted a leading medical official as saying "a great many crippled babies were born" because of inadequate maternity care, malnutrition and other complications.
- Atlantis has been crippled by leaking hydrogen since June.
- A lone fishing boat, dwarfed by the crippled hulk of the tanker, circled in silent protest as the ship was pulled from its protected anchorage at Outside Bay on Naked Island.
- The crippled plane crashed into the Caspian Sea, killing all 57 people aboard.
- The walkout crippled the airline's top-priority Northeast shuttle this morning as the work week got under way, but a court order prevented rush-hour chaos for a half-million rail commuters.
- As the workday began, air traffic was not crippled.
- That disaster crippled the Valley's economy and forced growers to replant trees that were expected to mature this season and produce a full crop for the first time.
- She recalled how the crippled ship was greeted by hundreds of people bearing balloons and welcome-home banners when it returned after the attack last year. "Last August, it was a a lot more emotional," she said.
- State and local anti-drug programs _ begun with such promise just two years ago _ could be crippled or even killed unless the federal government provides sufficient money, officials say.
- Managers of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant offered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission a detailed look at what will happen if the facility's crippled Unit 2 is mothballed, which the company hopes to do by the end of next year.
- On Wednesday, Hyundai's management shut down the plant indefinitely to counter what it called an illegal work slowdown that had crippled operations.
- The crippled ship was returned to NASSCO from Alaska, where it ran aground March 24 in Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude into the sound's wildlife-rich waters.
- Authorities planned to inspect the crippled ship to gauge damage, how much fuel remained and how to remove the fuel and the tanker.
- But for Mr. Gephardt, Mr. Simon and the rest, Iowa performs the function of a high hurdle in the political marathon: Stumble here and your campaign is crippled.
- Gov. Leo McCarthy said damage would total "the better part of $1 billion." San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos urged commuters to stay home rather than tax the transportation system, crippled by the closing of the Bay Bridge.
- In a telephone interview from Yerevan, he said major industries were crippled by strikes Wednesday and virtually all students at colleges and technical institutes boycotted classes.
- Two days after NASA revealed that the Hubble was crippled by a defective mirror, the House approved $14.3 billion for the agency in fiscal 1991, $2 billion more than the current fiscal year. There's little talk of any immediate cutbacks.
- He slowly regained much of the party support, but his campaign was crippled by lack of money.
- Walker told the Journal National County was crippled by the loss of a reinsurance contract with Dallas-based Republic Insurance Group.
- Although the pit has contracts to sell its coal, it is crippled by lack of finance due to initial underfunding and subsequent operating losses.
- It's not a politically charged episode." The domestic industry has been sensitive about its image since one of the two Three Mile Island reactors was crippled in a 1979 accident that led to a $1 billion cleanup.
- In South Korea, protests by investors crippled operations at stock trading offices in Seoul and at least six other cities.
- But in 1952, Salk successfully tested a killed-virus type vaccine at a home for crippled children at Leetsdale, Pa.
- A crippled beggar shaking a cup is crying out every bit as much as the man primly carrying a sign asking for contributions to save the rain forests.
- It was not immediately clear how the coup might affect an insurgency that has crippled the mining of bauxite - a major export used in producing aluminum.
- On a continent crippled by foreign debt, Botwana's government has spent cautiously.