身残志坚：disabled的用法解析

Are you telling us you can send out a signal that will disable all their shields?

——Independence Day

你可以靠传送讯号使防护罩失效?

——《独立日》

一、你知道disabled有几种含义吗？

adj.

1.残疾的，伤残的；[the ~]残疾人 unable to use a part of your body completely or easily because of a physical condition, illness, injury, etc.; unable to learn easily

The car has been adapted for [disabled] drivers.

这车改装过以合乎残障驾驶的需要。

2.残疾的，有缺陷的 physically or mentally impaired in a way that substantially limits activity especially in relation to employment or education

Employers are being encouraged to hire disabled workers.

雇主受鼓励雇用残废的工人。

v.

使丧失能力；使伤残:to injure or affect sb permanently so that, for example, they cannot walk or cannot use a part of their body

 He was disabled in a car accident.他在车祸中残废了。  

二、接下来，做个填词游戏吧

Pity welled up in her heart as she watched the disabled child. 当她看到那个残疾孩子的时候，怜悯之心涌上心头。