cripple是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 残疾人, 跛子 vt. 使跛, 使残疾，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor does this its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power.
-- And in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight of the two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by the perpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a pair of tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem to bethink them that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to use their sea bannisters.
-- Meanwhile Ahab half smothered in the foam of the whale's insolent tail, and too much of a cripple to swim, though he could still keep afloat, even in the heart of such a whirlpool as that; helpless Ahab's head was seen, like a tossed bubble which the least chance shock might burst.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet, wretched cripple as I made myself by this act of homageto Dora, I walked miles upon miles daily in the hope of seeing her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The black-faced cripple was glaring at me as fixedly in the bows near the puma.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His preoccupied face so clearly denoted the pursuit in which he was engaged, that every cripple at the post-houses, not blind, who shoved his little battered tin-box in at the carriage window for Charity in the name of Heaven, Charity in the name of our Lady, Charity in the name of all the Saints, knew as well what work he was at, as their countryman Le Brun could have known it himself, though he had made that English traveller the subject of a special physiognomical treatise.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, and even if things so fell out that he was forced to keep his faith with Dr. Livesey, even then what danger lay before us!What a moment that would be when the suspicions of his followers turned to certainty and he and I should have to fight for dear life he a cripple and I a boy against five strong and active seamen!
-- "Mates," says he, "there's two of them alone there; one's the old cripple that brought us all here and blundered us down to this; the other's that cub that I mean to have the heart of.
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