limps

英 [lɪmps]

美 [lɪmps]

v.  瘸着走; 跛行; 蹒跚; (受损后)缓慢行进，艰难地移动
limp的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 一瘸一拐地走；跛行；蹒跚
  If a person or animallimps, they walk with difficulty or in an uneven way because one of their legs or feet is hurt.
  1. I wasn't badly hurt, but I injured my thigh and had to limp...
     我伤得不重，但一条大腿伤到了，只好一瘸一拐地走。
  2. He had to limp off with a leg injury.
     他腿上有伤，离开时只能一瘸一拐地走。
  3. Limpis also a noun.
     
  4. A stiff knee following surgery forced her to walk with a limp.
     手术后她的膝盖活动不便，走路时被迫跛行。
• VERB 进展缓慢；艰难地行进
  If you say that something such as an organization, process, or vehiclelimps along, you mean that it continues slowly or with difficulty, for example because it has been weakened or damaged.
  1. In recent years the newspaper had been limping along on limited resources...
     近年来这家报社一直在靠有限的资源艰难维持。
  2. A British battleship, which had been damaged severely in the battle of Crete, came limping into Pearl Harbor.
     一艘在克里特岛战役中严重受损的英国战舰艰难缓慢地驶进珍珠港。
• ADJ-GRADED 软弱的；无力的
  If you describe something aslimp, you mean that it is soft or weak when it should be firm or strong.
  1. She was told to reject applicants with limp handshakes...
     她被告知要回绝掉那些握手软弱无力的申请者。
  2. A residue can build up on the hair shaft, leaving the hair limp and dull looking.
     残留物会积聚在头发上，使头发看起来软塌塌的，而且毫无光泽。
• ADJ-GRADED 四肢无力的；身体一动不动的
  If someone islimp, their body has no strength and is not moving, for example because they are asleep or unconscious.
  1. He carried her limp body into the room and laid her on the bed...
     他把绵软无力的她抱进房间，放在床上。
  2. He hit his head against a rock and went limp.
     他的头撞到一块岩石上，身子软了下来。

双语例句

• The century limps into its teens looking ahead to yawning government deficits and global imbalances that are still not resolved.
  21世纪步履蹒跚的步入自己的“青年期”，展望未来，我们看到的是不断扩大的政府赤字和仍未解决的全球失衡。
• The third act limps badly.
  第三幕演得拖拖拉拉。
• He hardly limps at all.
  他几乎一点也不瘸。
• Every time a rock and roll music legend dies by murder, suicide or an infamous drug overdose, rock music limps while fans grieve and predict the end of it all.
  每当有摇滚乐传奇人物死于谋杀、自杀抑或是人所不齿的过量吸毒时，摇滚乐便陷入停滞不前的低迷困境，而摇滚乐迷们亦伤心不已，料想摇滚乐不日将走到尽头。
• Two novel 4-DOF parallel mechanism are synthesized by combining different limps.
  通过不同分支的组合，综合出了2种新的四自由度的并联机构。
• To exploit these players mistake you need to be isolating there limps with a fairly wide range.
  利用这些玩家的错误，你可以用范围很广的牌，通过加注来孤立他们。
• Rural cooperative medical insurance system limps pace from its inception
  农村合作医疗保险新体系蹒跚起步
• At the same time, it was also the entirety of the human survival, the humanity limps in the traditional and modern civilized gap, floating in the dusty life situation, and pursued the right which the life real and perfect, obstinate and instinct.
  同时，也是在说人类生存的全部，人类蹒跚在传统与现代的文明鸿沟中，在无所着落浮尘般的存在境遇中，追求生命真实而完美的落定的权利，执拗和本能。
• Lo! thus, by day my limps, by night my mind.
  就这样，白天我的身体，夜里我的心灵。
• To the contrary. As Mr Romney limps a little faster towards the Republican nomination, he accuses Mr Obama of turning the us into a "European-style entitlement society".
  相反，在硬撑着向共和党总统候选人提名发起冲刺之际，罗姆尼指责奥巴马正在把美国转变为一个“欧洲模式的福利社会”。