handicaps

英 [ˈhændikæps]

美 [ˈhændikæps]

n.  生理缺陷; 弱智; 残疾; 障碍; 阻碍; 让步赛(使参赛者中的优势方跑得较远、增加负重等); (让步赛中给优势方施加的)障碍，不利条件
v.  妨碍; 阻碍
handicap的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （生理或智力上的）残障，残疾
  Ahandicapis a physical or mental disability.
  1. He lost his leg when he was ten, but learnt to overcome his handicap.
     他10岁时失去了一条腿，但他学会了克服自己的残疾。
• N-COUNT 不利条件;障碍
  Ahandicapis an event or situation that places you at a disadvantage and makes it harder for you to do something.
  1. She was away from school for 15 weeks, a handicap she could have done without...
     她有15周没上学，这给她带来了本不该有的障碍。
  2. Being a foreigner was not a handicap.
     身为外国人并不是一个障碍。
• VERB 妨碍;使不利
  If an event or a situationhandicapssomeone or something, it places them at a disadvantage.
  1. Greater levels of stress may seriously handicap some students...
     压力的加重可能会给一些学生带来严重的负面影响。
  2. The industrial injuries scheme takes into account the actual disability and whether it handicaps a person in working.
     工伤赔偿方案要考虑实际残疾情况以及残疾是否会影响其工作能力。
• N-COUNT （高尔夫运动中的）给弱者增加的杆数，差点
  In golf, ahandicapis an advantage given to someone who is not a good player, in order to make the players more equal. As you improve, your handicap gets lower.
  1. I see your handicap is down from 16 to 12.
     我发现你的差点已从16杆降到了12杆。
• （赛马比赛的）让步赛
  In horse racing, ahandicapis a race in which some competitors are given a disadvantage of extra weight in an attempt to give everyone an equal chance of winning.

双语例句

• I never know you to be one to be prejudiced against handicaps.
  我一点也不知道你是一个对障碍怀有偏见的。
• Every ground for saying," With such handicaps, a man cannot work. "
  一切都如俗语所说：“带着如此的残废，人是不能工作了。”
• Of the two handicaps, being black is much less of a drawback than being female.
  在这两种不利因素中，是个女人比是黑人更糟。
• The disadvantages of this system are that it entails charging your own countrymen more money for their loans, handicaps them, and may eventually lower their scale of living.
  这一机制的缺点在于，它将增加本国国民的贷款成本，阻碍他们的发展，最终可能降低他们的生活水平。
• Unlike the C and Java ™ languages, Ruby is interpreted, with all of the inherent performance handicaps.
  与C和Java™语言不同，Ruby是解释性的，且存在性能上的一些固有阻碍。
• And yet, despite these handicaps, both aspire to large returns.
  尽管障碍重重，两方都仍热盼取得高额回报。
• There are nine other blacks in congress; there are ten other women. I was the first to overcome both handicaps at once.
  国会中还有九位黑人议员和十位妇女议员，但我是第一位同时克服两个不利因素的人。
• The arbitrariness of language symbols is the primary factor that handicaps an adults English vocabulary learning process.
  语言符号的任意性是成年人英语词汇学习的主要障碍。
• But he overcame the handicaps of his upbringing to become a disciplined and industrious writer.
  不过他还是克服了成长过程中的各种障碍成为一名训练有素的勤奋作家。
• International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps
  缺陷、残疾和障碍的国际分类