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单词 hobble
释义
hobble
verb
uk
/ˈhɒb.əl/us
/ˈhɑː.bəl/

hobbleverb(WALK)

[Iusually+ adv/prep]
towalkin anawkwardway, usually because thefeetorlegsareinjured:
一瘸一拐地行走，跛行
The lasttimeIsawRachel she was hobbling around with astick.上次我见到雷切尔的时候，她拄着拐杖一瘸一拐的。
Some of therunnerscould onlymanageto hobble over thefinishingline.有些赛跑者只是勉强蹒跚着支撑到终点。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
  • blunder
  • bumble
  • dodder
  • dodderer
  • doddery
  • halting
  • hardly/barely put one foot in front of the otheridiom
  • have two left feetidiom
  • limp
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • lurch
  • reel
  • squeeze
  • teeter
  • toddle
  • toil
  • totter
  • tottering
  • tumble
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hobbleverb(LIMIT)

[T]
tolimitsomething orcontrolthefreedomof someone:
约束，限制
Alonglistofamendmentshave hobbled the newlegislation.一长串修正案限制了这项新立法。
[T]literary
If you hobble ananimal,especiallyahorse, youtietwo ofitslegstogether so that it cannotrunaway.
捆缚（动物，尤指马等的）两条腿
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
  • anti-libertarian
  • boundary
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • chain
  • chainsomeonetosomething
  • cramp
  • crowd
  • curb
  • curtail
  • curtailment
  • damage limitation
  • hamstring
  • limit
  • limitation
  • limiting
  • localize
  • non-exempt
  • straitjacket
  • tempered
  • tiesomeonedown
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Fastening and tying
(Definition ofhobblefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

hobble| American Dictionary

hobble
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈhɑb·əl/
towalkwithdifficultyin anawkwardway, or tocausesomeone towalkin this way, usually because of aninjuryto thefeetorlegs:
[Ialways+ adv/prep]He hobbled over oncrutches.
(Definition ofhobblefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhobble

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Alas, he is bitted and bridled and hobbled and haltered till he can hardly move.
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I remember one old woman who had bunions, and who hobbled, and for whom life was sheer misery.
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If we hobbled a company by preventing it from working hard, we would deprive factories of the ability to compete worldwide.
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I most strongly believe that so hobbled and emaciated a version would very soon provoke demands for something more complete and more interesting.
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I do not think that it can be said that they are hobbled when we see how many of them are now operating.
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What is the use of allowing them to enter into a sphere of operations completely hobbled?
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We find these efforts hobbled by institutional inertia that mistakes motion for progress.
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The present land system hampers, hobbles and restricted industry.
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Together, somehow, we hobbled round into the compartment where another porter came to help us sit down.
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If they are damaged or hobbled, services will suffer.
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One of the dangers and detrimental effects of retaining section 28 is that it seriously hobbles the advice that local authorities are able to give.
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There are clearly not vast numbers of wounded foxes hobbling around the countryside.
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I may be hobbled by the difficulty of being what he calls a criminal lawyer.
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They succeeded in hobbling the trade union movement to a point where opposition is virtually nil, and yet what have they done?
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Furthermore, by the institution of these proceedings the union is hobbled from taking the proposed action by the spectre of contempt and sequestration.
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