cripple
【英英释义】
n. a person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple. 瘸子，残疾人 offensive
n. if you describe someone as an emotional cripple, you mean that they have a particular psychological or emotional problem which prevents them from living a normal life. （心理上或情感上）有缺陷的人
v. if someone is crippled by an injury, it is so serious that they can never move their body properly again. 使残疾，使成为跛子 be v-ed / V n / V-ed
v. if something cripples a person, it causes them severe psychological or emotional problems. 使（心理上或情感上）出现问题 V n / V-ed
v. to cripple a machine, organization, or system means to damage it severely or prevent it from working properly. 严重毁坏（机器），破坏（组织、体系） V n / V-ed
to cause great damage to something
【词义深度解析】
cripple作名词时，常表示“瘸子”（有冒犯的色彩），作动词时常表示“使残疾，使成为跛子；严重破坏（组织、体系）”。当我们想表示“破坏”时，除了用damage...badly，我们可以直接用简洁、形象的cripple。
【例句学习】
1. The war has crippled the economy.
2. Not long ago floods crippled millions of households in Shouguang, Shandong Province.
3. Stage fright crippled him. 怯场把他搞砸了。
4. The only way to make apartheid work is to cripple the black mind.
apartheid n. 南非曾经施行的种族隔离制度
唯一实现种族隔离制度的方法就是摧毁黑人的心智。
【词汇运用】
台风山竹（Typhoon Mangkhut）严重破坏了香港和广东地区的电力供应和通讯服务。
The typhoon Mangkhut has crippled grid providing and communication services within the district of HongKong and Guangdong. （自己）
Typhoon Mangkhut has crippled the electricity supply and communication services in Hong Kong and Guangdong. （参考翻译）
分析：参考翻译的电力供应为electricity supply，台风前没有加the，介词within与in的异同，都需要做功课。
2. 生活场景应用
His bad temper has cirppled our good mood during the Spring Festival.
