1.
ADJ
(疾病等)严重损害健康(或身体)的 A crippling illness or disability is one that severely damages your health or your body.
-
Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases...
关节炎和风湿病是会严重损害身体健康的主要疾病。
-
They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
2.
ADJ
有严重危害的 If you say that an action, policy, or situation has a crippling effect on something, you mean it has a very serious, harmful effect.
-
The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small American high-tech firms...
高昂的资金成本严重影响了美国的很多小型高科技公司。
-
The American military presence on the islands had suffered a crippling blow.
该群岛上的美国部队受到了严重打击。
cripplingly
-
...cripplingly high interest rates.
过高的利率
- Adjective
-
1. that cripples or disables or incapacitates;
- "a crippling injury"
- synonym： disabling，incapacitating
- 1. He was burdened with crippling debts.
- 他负债累累，深受其害。
来自《简明英汉词典》
