英语单词 | handicap |
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英美音标 | 英 ['hændikæp] 美 ['hændikæp] |
中文释义 | n.障碍 vt.妨碍 |
英语例句 | (1) Blindness is a great handicap. (2) Deafness can be a serious handicap. (3) Poor eyesight is a handicap to a student. (4) It takes a lot of grit to overcome a physical handicap. (5) Ignorance can handicap the progress of a city. (6) Being overweight will handicap a boy in sports. (7) Otherwise, it will handicap the development of economy as well as that of society. |
中文例句 | (1) 失明是极大的障碍。 (2) 耳聋算是严重的缺陷。 (3) 视力不好对学生来说是一个障碍。 (4) 要很大的毅力来克服生理上的障碍。 (5) 无知会妨碍城市的进步。 (6) 过重会妨碍孩子搞运动。 (7) 如果不适应,则必定既阻碍经济的发展,也阻碍社会的发展。 |
vocabulary简明 | A mental or physical disadvantage, such as blindness or a missing leg, is a handicap: something that disables you in some way. Handicaps can also be imposed artificially to even out the odds in sporting events. |
vocabulary扩展 | A sporting handicap might be a faster horse carrying an extra weight, or a better golfer having a few strokes added to her score to make things more competitive. Sometimes fate imposes a handicap, as when bad weather handicaps your travel plans, or a strike handicaps the subway system. Handicap comes from the term hand in cap, an ancient British practice in which two bettors placed their money into a hat held by a neutral third party before a bet. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](生理或智力上的)残障,残疾 A handicap is a physical or mental disability.
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]不利条件;障碍 A handicap is an event or situation that places you at a disadvantage and makes it harder for you to do something.
3 [VERB 动词]妨碍;使不利 If an event or a situation handicaps someone or something, it places them at a disadvantage. [V n]
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词](高尔夫运动中的)给弱者增加的杆数,差点 In golf, a handicap is an advantage given to someone who is not a good player, in order to make the players more equal. As you improve, your handicap gets lower.
5 [N-COUNT 可数名词](赛马比赛的)让步赛 In horse racing, a handicap is a race in which some competitors are given a disadvantage of extra weight in an attempt to give everyone an equal chance of winning. |
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