hobble

英 [ˈhɒbl]

美 [ˈhɑːbl]

v.  蹒跚; 跛行; 捆绑(马等的)两腿(以防其走失); 阻止; 妨碍
n.  跛行; 蹒跚;<口/方〉困境

过去式：hobbled　现在分词：hobbling　过去分词：hobbled　第三人称单数：hobbles　复数：hobbles　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14802 / COCA.11703

牛津词典

verb

• 蹒跚；跛行
  to walk with difficulty, especially because your feet or legs hurt
  1. The old man hobbled across the road.
     老人一瘸一拐地穿过马路。
• 捆绑（马等的）两腿（以防其走失）
  to tie together two legs of a horse or other animal in order to stop it from running away
• 阻止；妨碍
  to make it more difficult for sb to do sth or for sth to happen

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。

英英释义

noun

• the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
  Synonym:hitchlimp
• a shackle for the ankles or feet
  Synonym:fetter

verb

• strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
  1. hobble race horses
  Synonym:hopple
• walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
  1. The old woman hobbles down to the store every day
  Synonym:limpgimphitch
• hamper the action or progress of
  1. The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean

双语例句

• I hurt my foot, and had to hobble home.
  我的脚受了伤，只好一拐一拐地走回家。
• However, there still exist several problems which hobble web service composition.
  但是目前Web服务组装技术仍然存在以下问题：如何控制业务流程中业务操作的粒度，使每个业务操作都能绑定在Web服务实例上；
• India's inexorably growing power crisis is a bottleneck that threatens to hobble its overall growth rate.
  印度面临不断增长的电力需求，这样的瓶颈让经济总增长率步履维艰。
• Enormous capital investments mean that losses can easily reach billions of dollars, and long product cycles mean that a wrong turn can hobble a company for a number of years.
  巨额的资本投资意味着损失轻易就能达到数十亿美元，而产品周期长意味着一个错误的转变就会让公司陷入长达数年的困境。
• Today I was allowed to hobble into the dining hall in Christ Church to see Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland immortalized in the stained glass windows.
  今天，我被允许在教堂餐厅里参观了雕刻在彩色玻璃窗里的LewisCarroll的爱丽斯梦游仙境。
• The essential reason is that we do not understand the essence of vacation tourism and the characteristic of vacation theory, tourists and marketing, so that the development gets into a hobble.
  没有充分认识度假旅游休闲的本质和理念特征、消费者特征以及营销特征，是导致度假旅游的发展陷入误区的主要原因。
• The article holds the view that Small and Medium Enterprises in China are currently still getting into the hobble of serious total quantity insufficiency and structure irrationality.
  本文认为目前我国中小企业融资仍然处于总量严重不足、结构不合理的困境之中。
• 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。
• Since CCTV carried out eliminate the last system, many documentary programs have fallen into a hobble.
  央视实行末尾淘汰制后，许多纪录片栏目陷入了生存困境。
• But crumbling ports, railways and highways hobble exporters with needless costs and delays.
  但满目疮痍的港口、铁路和高速公路，却给出口商造成了不必要的成本和迟滞。