Pop was shuffling hurriedly out of the corral after the liniment. To Jeff's challenge he made no reply whatever. The group around Jeff shooed Smoky gently toward the other side of the corral, thereby convincing themselves of the limp in his right hind foot. While not so pronounced as to be crippling, it certainly was no asset to a running horse, and the wise ones conferred together in undertones.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
"Thou wonderest, sweet sprig, at me, A man so hideous to see: Deep wounds but rarely mend the face, The crippling blow gives little grace. The arrow-drift o'ertook me, girl, -- A fine-ground arrow in the whirl Went through me, and I feel the dart Sits, lovely girl, too near my heart."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
The Great War put an unprecedented strain upon the American Federation of Labor. In every center of industry laborers of foreign birth early showed their racial sympathies, and under the stimuli of the intriguing German and Austrian ambassadors sinister plots for crippling munitions plants and the shipping industries were hatched everywhere. Moreover, workingmen became restive under the burden of increasing prices, and strikes for higher wages occurred almost daily.英文原著 · 《The Armies of Labor》
Yes. Another loss will be demoralizing. And crippling.美剧 · 《Billions》
The only thing those people are equipped to teach is how to live with crippling disappointment.美剧 · 《Shameless》
I am a man who can't talk to women, Trying to figure out How to go on a romantic date with a girl Who suffers from such crippling social anxiety She can't be around other people.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》