cripple
英 ['kr?p(?)l]
美 ['kr?pl]
- vt. 削弱；使跛；使殘廢
- n. 跛子；殘廢
- adj. 跛的；殘廢的
助記提示
1. The etymological sense of cripple appears to be 'someone who creeps along'.
2. creep + -le => cripple.
中文詞源
英文詞源
- cripple
- cripple: [OE] The etymological sense of cripple appears to be ‘someone who creeps along’, for it probably goes back ultimately to the same Indo- European base, *greub-, as creep. The word is widespread in the Germanic languages: German has kruppel, Dutch kreupel, and Norwegian krypel.
=> creep - cripple (n.)
- Old English crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (cognates: 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.
雙語例句
- 1. The national health system saved him from becoming a cripple.
- 在國民醫療保健系統的救助下，他免于致殘。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country's economy.
- 全面切斷物品供應會使該國經濟陷入癱瘓。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Let's try to cripple their communications.
- 我們試著破壞他們的通訊設備吧。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. It is wrong to make fun of a cripple.
- 嘲笑殘疾人是不對的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. It's cruel to make fun of a cripple.
- 取笑瘸子是殘忍的.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》