disable

英 [dɪs'eɪbl] 美 [dɪs'eɪbl]

• v. 使 ... 失去能力

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使(人)无能力; 使残废

   make (a person) unable to do sth, especially to use his body properly

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 使失去能力，使无能，使不中用
2. 使无效
3. 使残废，使伤残，使丧失活动能力
4. 【律】使无资格，使无能力
5. 使不能正常运转

英英释义

Verb:

1. make unable to perform a certain action;

   "disable this command on your computer"
   

2. injure permanently;

   "He was disabled in a car accident"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. He was disabled from walking by the accident.
   由于车祸，他不能走路了。
2. Old age disabled him for hard labour.
   年迈使他不能干繁重的工作。
3. The soldier disabled by wounds in his leg is buried in sadness.
   那个腿部受伤致残的士兵正沉浸在悲哀之中。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The accident disabled him for work.
   这起事故使他丧失了工作能力。
2. One bomb can disable a ship.
   一颗炸弹就能毁坏一条船。
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3. He was disabled in the war.
   他在战争中残废了。
4. The plane was critically disabled when one of the engines caught fire.
   有一台引擎起火,使飞机严重受损。

经典引文

• Men are disabled from understanding what they have been taught to condemn.

  出自： R. D. Hampden

• A car that is disabled or illegally parked.

  出自：Scientific American

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

disable by (v.+prep.)

因…而无能力,残疾 make (a person) unable to do sth for some reason
disable sb for sth
They were disabled by age or sickness.

他们因年老或疾病而失去了工作的能力。
Nobody can avoid being disabled by age.

谁也无法避免年老体衰。

disable for (v.+prep.)

因…而使(某人)无能力 make (a person) unable to do sth for some reason
disable sb for sth
Old age disabled him for hard work.

年迈使他不能胜任繁重工作。
The accident disabled him for work.

这起事故使他丧失了工作能力。

disable from (v.+prep.)

使(人)无能力 make (a person) unable to do sth
disable sb from v-ing
An accident disabled her from playing football.

一起事故使她再也不能踢足球了。
She has disabled herself from walking by a fall.

她因跌伤不能行走。
He is disabled from voting.

他被剥夺了投票权。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• disable completely〔entirely, totally〕 完全无能
• disable permanently 终身残疾
• disable personally 受伤
• disable physically 身体残疾

～+介词

• disable by 因…而残疾
• disable for 使…不能
• disable from 丧失做…的能力

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. disable的基本意思是指某一偶然事件、某一伤害或某一影响等会使某人丧失能力或力量。
2. disable是及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

disable, unable

• disable和unable都含有“无能”的意思,都是able的派生词。但disable是动词,表示“使无能”“使伤残”,而unable是形容词,表示“无法的”“无能的”; disable其后不可接不定式,而unable后面可接动词不定式。

近反义词

【近义词】

• weaken 使 ... 弱，削弱...
• cripple 跛者
• incapacitate 使不能
• maim 使伤残
• restrict 限制
• inactivate 使不活跃
• deactivate 使无效
• put out of action 使失去效用
• spike 长钉
• knock out 敲出
• enfeeble 使衰弱
• debilitate 使 ... 衰弱
• dismember 割断手足
• wing 翅膀
• lame 无说服力的
• tire 轮胎
• disenable 使不能
• handicap 障碍
• invalid 无效的

【反义词】

• enable 使能够