crippling

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.
   1. 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。
   2. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。

1. Arthritis is a crippling disease which affects people all over the world.
   关节炎是一种会危害全人类健康的致残性疾病。
2. 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。
3. They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.
   他们俩都感到髋部疼痛难忍。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
   他21岁时突患致残重疾。
7. He has survived direct attacks from the United States and years of crippling international sanctions.
   要知道，卡扎菲躲过了美国的数次直接袭击，而且从残酷的国际制裁中幸存了下来。
8. It is a crippling population problem that could be worse than any global economic slowdown.
   人口年龄层失衡的问题，将比全球经济衰退更严重。
9. But I also know that sanctions without outreach condemnation without discussion can carry forward only a crippling status quo.
   我也知道，如果一味制裁而没有主动接触，如果一味谴责而没有对话，只能保持一个有害的现状。
10. Take the crippling clashes over coal and iron ore. The role of the state and the judicial system is to act as an arbiter, setting and implementing laws that balance competing claims over the use of land and resources.
    以围绕煤炭和铁矿石爆发的破坏性冲突为例。政府和司法体系的角色是充当仲裁者，制定和执行法律，以平衡各方对土地和资源使用权利的对立主张。
11. Washington should prepare for crippling attacks on satellites and other communications systems before it is too late.
    华盛顿方面应该准备防范卫星及其他通讯系统受到的攻击，否则将为时已晚。
12. German and UK banks have crippling exposures to Ireland, French and German banks to Greece, Spanish banks to Portugal.
    德国和英国的银行对爱尔兰的风险敞口大得危险，法国和德国银行对希腊、西班牙银行对葡萄牙的情况也一样。
13. Parts of the country are continuing to suffer from a crippling drought.
    我国的部分地区正持续遭受严重的干旱。
14. Is there a cure? I heard this is a crippling disease.
    这病有办法根治吗？我听说这是一种会使人残废的病。
15. It will have crippling effect on you in later life.
    这对你以后的生活会留下极其严重的影响。
16. Crippling fines have been imposed on unsanctioned demonstrations.
    未经批准的抗议活动遭到了巨额罚款。
17. The bad news is that you can't remove IE without crippling your operating system.
    坏消息是你不能无损操作系统地移除ie。
18. By responding to WHO's call, governments can reduce the toll of fatal and crippling heart attacks, strokes, cancers and respiratory diseases that have become increasingly prevalent among women.
    如果各国政府响应世卫组织的号召，即可减少在妇女中越来越普遍的致命或致残的心脏病、中风、癌症和呼吸系统疾病的影响。
19. Zimbabwe is a more recent example of this crippling medical emigration.
    在这场影响严重的医药人才移民潮中，津巴布韦是近期更为突出的案例。
20. That might be the price society has to pay to keep the banking system afloat without crippling future taxpayers.
    这或许是社会为使银行体系摆脱困境、同时不致使未来纳税人深陷泥沼所必须付出的代价。
21. And some with that dementia also develop crippling symptoms like Gehrig's, gradually losing control of their muscles.
    而痴呆患者中的一些也有类似肌萎缩性侧索硬化症的跛行症状，且逐渐丧失对肌肉的控制。
22. Today we consider foot binding ugly and crippling; back then they consider it beautiful and elevating.
    今天我们认为扎脚丑陋和使人伤残，当年人们认为扎脚美丽和使人高贵。
23. Crippling Blow-Another skill that enhances the attack of the Warriors'weapon of choice.
    削弱攻击-另一个通过选择增加战士武器攻击力的技能。
24. Falling prices would make their already crippling burdens even heavier.
    价格不断下降会使得他们本难以支撑的负担更加沉重。
25. Its profitability is limited by domestic price regulation and a crippling export tax.
    其盈利能力受到国内价格管制和苛刻出口税的限制。
26. You are destroying, you are crippling the other.
    你是在摧毁，损坏人们。
27. The arrears payments were even more crippling.
    偿付欠款造成了更为严重的损害。
28. But that ignores the necessity for sufficient deficit reduction to win market confidence and thereby avoid crippling interest rates.
    但这忽视了削减足够多的赤字以赢得市场信心、从而避免利率达到有害水平的必要性。
29. You have put us in a wonderful position to strike them a crippling blow.
    你让我们有很好的机会教训他们。
30. The pictures triggered public outrage and a crippling four-month strike over a steep rise in extrajudicial killings.
    这些照片引起公众对法外处决激增的怒火，以及4个月的断断续续的罢工。

adj

1. that cripples or disables or incapacitates
   1. a crippling injury

   Synonym:    disablingincapacitating