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

• Disarray and recriminations within NATO hobble the single most effective potential tool for Western military intervention overseas.
  北约内部的混乱和相互攻讦，让西方海外军事干预仰仗的唯一一个最有效的潜在工具失去了作用。
• This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?
  生活在这种境遇里真是不容易，你是不是这样认为？
• The boy hurt his foot, so he had to hobble dong.
  那男孩的脚受了伤，他只好一瘸一拐地走。
• 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。
• The man took heart and, sure enough, on New Years 'Eve he was able to hobble along to a party.
  那人听后振作了精神，果然，除夕时他可以一瘸一拐地去参加晚会了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I made a one-leg hobble out of the lead rope by putting the end of the lead rope through the bull snap.
  之后，我再将它那一只跛行的脚，再用扣环扣住绳子的另一端。
• Yet, foreign aid to Africa has remained essentially flat over the past two years and trade barriers that hobble African exports to wealthy countries have proved difficult to dismantle.
  但是，在过去的两年中，外国对非洲的援助基本保持在原有水平上，针对非洲出口的贸易壁垒很难消除。