cripple是什么意思_cripple怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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.

词态变化

复数 cripples;
第三人称单数 cripples;
过去式 crippled;
过去分词 crippled;
现在分词 crippling;
形容词 crippling;

1. The national health system saved him from becoming a cripple.: 在国民医疗保健系统的救助下，他免于致残。

2. A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country"s economy.: 全面切断物品供应会使该国经济陷入瘫痪。

cripple scaffold 扶臂脚手架

cripple window 跛窗

cripple education 残废人教育

cripple scaffold 扶臂脚手架

Cripple Lee seated inincense burner 铁拐李坐香炉

这两个动词均含“使跛，使残废”之意。
lame普通用词，指因受伤或本身的生理缺陷而使人的身体致残，着重行走时的不便。
cripple正式用词，语气较强。多指因伤、体弱或疾病等所导致的永久性残废，常为肢体不全，行走不便，甚至移动身体也困难。

1. The etymological sense of cripple appears to be "someone who creeps along".
2. creep + -le => cripple.