crutch

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n. 拐杖, 支撑, 依靠 vt. 支撑

发音

其它 /kɹʌt͡ʃ/

词形变化

crutches 复数 crutches crutched crutches 三单 crutching crutching 现在分词 crutched 过去式 crutched 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

拐杖；支柱；依靠；胯部

动词

用拐杖支撑；支持

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.

    拐杖

    拐子

    腋杖

    He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.

  2. 2.

    Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop

    Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.

  3. 3.

    A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.

  4. 4.

    A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

  5. 5.

    A knee, or piece of knee timber.

    航海 交通
  6. 6.

    An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint.

    俚语
  7. 7.

    A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.

    航海 交通
v.
  1. 1.

    To support on crutches; to prop up.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To move on crutches.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.

    及物
  4. 4.

    to stir with a crutch.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

staff expedient

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.

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