Cripple

Cripple: damage...badly～paralyze

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例句：

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.

4) The only way to make apartheid work is to cripple the black mind.

译：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。

参考翻译：Typhoon Mangkhut has crippled the power electricity supply and tele-communication services in Hongkong Hong Kong and Guangdong Province.

场景1：应试教育危害

Some say the exam-oriented education cripples children’s creativity.

场景2：个人情感经历

My grandma’s passing, parents’ constant fighting, and my best friend’s betrayal has left me emotionally crippled for years.

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

                            —Henry David Thoreau
  US Transcendentalist author (1817-1862)