hobble

verb

1. 蹒跚；跛行
   to walk with difficulty, especially because your feet or legs hurt
   1. The old man hobbled across the road.
      老人一瘸一拐地穿过马路。
2. 捆绑（马等的）两腿（以防其走失）
   to tie together two legs of a horse or other animal in order to stop it from running away
3. 阻止；妨碍
   to make it more difficult for sb to do sth or for sth to happen

1. VERB 跛行;一瘸一拐地走
   If you hobble, you walk in an awkward way with small steps, for example because your foot is injured.
   1. He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table...
      他慢慢地站起来，一瘸一拐地走到咖啡桌旁。
   2. The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble.
      肿胀已经开始消退，他能忍着痛一瘸一拐地走了。
2. VERB 妨碍;阻碍
   To hobble something or someone means to make it more difficult for them to be successful or to achieve what they want.
   1. The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
      1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。

1. He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table
   他慢慢地站起来，一瘸一拐地走到咖啡桌旁。
2. The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble.
   肿胀已经开始消退，他能忍着痛一瘸一拐地走了。
3. The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
   1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。
4. Enormous capital investments mean that losses can easily reach billions of dollars, and long product cycles mean that a wrong turn can hobble a company for a number of years.
   巨额的资本投资意味着损失轻易就能达到数十亿美元，而产品周期长意味着一个错误的转变就会让公司陷入长达数年的困境。
5. ( I offered to leave on my own, but being a gentleman, he helped me hobble home and promptly never let me forget it.)
   （我跟他说我可以自己走，不过作为一个绅士，他还是帮我一瘸一拐的走回了家，然后让我对这件事永世不忘。）
6. Don't let these time leeches hobble your success.
   不要让这些垃圾时间妨碍你的成功。
7. That, though, could very well hobble growth, pushing it down towards a once unthinkable 4 per cent.
   但这很可能阻碍经济增长，导致增长率滑向一度不可想象的4%。
8. The boy hurt his foot, so he had to hobble dong.
   那男孩的脚受了伤，他只好一瘸一拐地走。
9. This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?
   生活在这种境遇里真是不容易，你是不是这样认为？
10. The man took heart and, sure enough, on New Years 'Eve he was able to hobble along to a party.
    那人听后振作了精神，果然，除夕时他可以一瘸一拐地去参加晚会了。
11. India's inexorably growing power crisis is a bottleneck that threatens to hobble its overall growth rate.
    印度面临不断增长的电力需求，这样的瓶颈让经济总增长率步履维艰。
12. I saw her hobble down the aisle.
    我看见她在过道边蹦跳着移动。
13. Today I was allowed to hobble into the dining hall in Christ Church to see Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland immortalized in the stained glass windows.
    今天，我被允许在教堂餐厅里参观了雕刻在彩色玻璃窗里的LewisCarroll的爱丽斯梦游仙境。
14. A new era hobble to us in the expectation of a hundred years.
    一个新的时代，终于在百年的期待中，向我们一步三晃、蹒跚走来！
15. Nadeshiko Japan's win at the Women's World Cup on Sunday night came at a crucial time in Japan as political strife continues to hobble reconstruction efforts.
    周日晚上，日本队赢得女足世界杯的冠军。此时的日本正处于关键时刻，政治纷争仍在阻挠震后重建工作。
16. Since CCTV carried out eliminate the last system, many documentary programs have fallen into a hobble.
    央视实行末尾淘汰制后，许多纪录片栏目陷入了生存困境。
17. That could hobble many of the technology-enabled trading processes that have resulted in tighter bid-ask spreads and greater liquidity in markets.
    这可能会阻碍许多由科技推动、促成市场买卖差价缩小而流动性增加的交易程序。
18. I made a one-leg hobble out of the lead rope by putting the end of the lead rope through the bull snap.
    之后，我再将它那一只跛行的脚，再用扣环扣住绳子的另一端。
19. She turned her ankle on the rocks and had to hobble back to camp.
    她在岩石上扭伤了脚踝，不得不跛行回营地。
20. Yet, foreign aid to Africa has remained essentially flat over the past two years and trade barriers that hobble African exports to wealthy countries have proved difficult to dismantle.
    但是，在过去的两年中，外国对非洲的援助基本保持在原有水平上，针对非洲出口的贸易壁垒很难消除。
21. Hobble out the horse not far from the cabin.
    用绳系住马腿任其在离小屋不远处溜达。
22. Disarray and recriminations within NATO hobble the single most effective potential tool for Western military intervention overseas.
    北约内部的混乱和相互攻讦，让西方海外军事干预仰仗的唯一一个最有效的潜在工具失去了作用。
23. But crumbling ports, railways and highways hobble exporters with needless costs and delays.
    但满目疮痍的港口、铁路和高速公路，却给出口商造成了不必要的成本和迟滞。
24. I hurt my foot, and had to hobble home.
    我的脚受了伤，只好一拐一拐地走回家。
25. With domestic banks providing 90 per cent of external credit to Chinese enterprises, a weak financial sector had threatened to hobble the economy.
    由于国内银行为中国企业提供了90%的外部贷款，薄弱的金融业曾一度危及中国经济的发展。
26. Yunnan Province, with rich natural resources, is in education hobble because of ists unbalanced economic development.
    经济发展的非均衡态势使云南作为资源大省唯独教育资源处于劣势。
27. The article holds the view that Small and Medium Enterprises in China are currently still getting into the hobble of serious total quantity insufficiency and structure irrationality.
    本文认为目前我国中小企业融资仍然处于总量严重不足、结构不合理的困境之中。
28. The essential reason is that we do not understand the essence of vacation tourism and the characteristic of vacation theory, tourists and marketing, so that the development gets into a hobble.
    没有充分认识度假旅游休闲的本质和理念特征、消费者特征以及营销特征，是导致度假旅游的发展陷入误区的主要原因。
29. However, there still exist several problems which hobble web service composition.
    但是目前Web服务组装技术仍然存在以下问题：如何控制业务流程中业务操作的粒度，使每个业务操作都能绑定在Web服务实例上；
30. At the same time, the value hobble of writers and the narrative diaphragm to the present country lead the elevation of integral creation connotation of local novels.
    同时，作家创作主体的价值困惑以及与当下农村的叙事隔膜导致了乡土小说整体创作意蕴的提升。

noun

1. the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

   Synonym:    hitchlimp

2. a shackle for the ankles or feet

   Synonym:    fetter

verb

1. strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
   1. hobble race horses

   Synonym:    hopple

2. walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
   1. The old woman hobbles down to the store every day

   Synonym:    limpgimphitch

3. hamper the action or progress of
   1. The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean