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Disable Disabled Injury Life Car Work Verb 动词

英语单词 disable
英美音标 英 [dɪs'eɪbl] 美 [dɪs'eɪbl]
中文释义 v.使 ... 失去能力
英语例句 (1) He was disabled from walking by the accident.
(2) Old age disabled him for hard labour.
(3) The soldier disabled by wounds in his leg is buried in sadness.
中文例句 (1) 由于车祸,他不能走路了。
(2) 年迈使他不能干繁重的工作。
(3) 那个腿部受伤致残的士兵正沉浸在悲哀之中。
vocabulary简明 When an injury disables someone, it leaves the person seriously hurt, probably for the rest of their life. If a car accident disables you, you are permanently limited in some physical way.
vocabulary扩展 Illness, as well as injury, can disable people: for example, diabetes disables some sufferers by leaving them blind or weakening their hearts. A completely different way to disable is to make something unusable or unable to work in a certain way. if you disable your smoke detector while you cook nachos in your smoky oven, it won't work until you reconnect the batteries.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]使丧失能力;使伤残 If an injury or illness disables someone, it affects them so badly that it restricts the way that they can live their life.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  • She did all this tendon damage and it really disabled her...

    她遭受这么严重的肌腱损伤,这实际上让她残废了。

  • Although disabled by polio during the Second World War, Proctor was also a first-rate helmsman.

    二战期间尽管身患小儿麻痹症,普罗克特仍不失为一流的舵手。

disabling
  • ...skin ulcers which are disfiguring and sometimes disabling.

    有损容貌甚至会致残的皮肤溃疡

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[VERB 动词](通常指暂时地)使无效,使不能正常运转 If someone or something disables a system or mechanism, they stop it working, usually temporarily.
  [V n]
  • ...if you need to disable a car alarm.

    如果你需要暂停汽车报警功能

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