hobbling

英 [ˈhɒblɪŋ]

美 [ˈhɑːblɪŋ]

v.  蹒跚; 跛行; 捆绑(马等的)两腿(以防其走失); 阻止; 妨碍
hobble的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 跛行;一瘸一拐地走
  If youhobble, you walk in an awkward way with small steps, for example because your foot is injured.
  1. He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table...
     他慢慢地站起来，一瘸一拐地走到咖啡桌旁。
  2. The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble.
     肿胀已经开始消退，他能忍着痛一瘸一拐地走了。
• VERB 妨碍;阻碍
  Tohobblesomething or someone means to make it more difficult for them to be successful or to achieve what they want.
  1. The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy.
     1,000万的贫困人口不仅给我们的社会抹黑，而且在这上面的支出也阻碍了我们的经济发展。

双语例句

• All this pain was in order to conform to a specific idea of beauty, that of women hobbling around on tiny feet.
  所有这些疼痛都是为了遵循美女的特定概念，即，女士踮着小脚行走。
• The public sector is still hobbling the economy.
  政府部门还在拖经济的后腿。
• The effects of heat treatment on wear resistance of disc hobbling materials of TBM have been researched using metallography and TEM.
  采用金相、TEM等方法研究了热处理工艺对自行研制的全断面掘进机用盘形滚刀材料的耐磨性的影响。
• "Give me a minute," he said, hobbling toward the cockpit.
  他说着，步履蹒跚地朝驾驶员座舱走去。
• "Hobbling down stairs with heedless haste, I set my foot full in a pail of water"( Richard Steele).
  “鲁莽地匆匆蹦跳着下了楼梯，我把双脚全部泡进了水桶里”（里查德·斯蒂尔）。
• Such a reprisal of its response to the financial crisis in 2009 would merely exacerbate the credit fatigue that is hobbling its dynamism.
  2009年那种对金融危机报复性的回应只会加剧信贷疲劳症，侵蚀经济活力。
• Most funds in China attract investors looking for a short-term trading opportunity, further hobbling the growth of a developed services sector.
  中国大多数基金吸引到的都是一些寻找短期交易机会的投资者，从而进一步阻碍了服务业的成熟。
• It also offloads billions of dollars in retiree health-care liabilities hobbling the Big Three to outside trust funds.
  同时，金额达数十亿美元的退休人员医疗费此前给三大厂商造成沉重负担，现在也转给了外部的信托基金。
• This not only stunts the prospects for women, but also reduces economic growth by essentially hobbling half the potential labour force.
  这不仅阻碍妇女的前途，而且束缚一半的潜在劳动力，以致减少经济增长。
• With economic growth at a premium, the UK should be wary of artificially hobbling it.
  考虑到目前迫切需要推动经济增长，英国应该警惕人为构成的阻碍。