记忆方法
1. The etymological sense of cripple appears to be 'someone who creeps along'.
2. creep + -le => cripple.
2. creep + -le => cripple.
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词族 · cripple
中文词源
cripple 使残废
词源同creep.
英语词源
- cripple
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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.
权威例句
- 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。
- 3. Let's try to cripple their communications.
- 我们试着破坏他们的通讯设备吧。
- 4. It is wrong to make fun of a cripple.
- 嘲笑残疾人是不对的.
- 5. It's cruel to make fun of a cripple.
- 取笑瘸子是残忍的.
词语辨析
【cripple, lame】
这组词都有“使跛，使残废”的意思，其区别是：
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。
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。
这组词都有“使跛，使残废”的意思，其区别是：
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。
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。