crutches

n.

拐杖( crutch的名词复数 )；支持物；精神上的寄托；胯部

1. He is lame in one leg and walks with the help of a crutch.
   他的一条腿跛了，走路借助于拐杖。
2. Religion was her crutch in times of sorrow.
   宗教是她忧伤时依赖的支柱。
3. The book was simply a crutch to my memory.
   那本书是我的记忆的支柱。

1. How closely women crutch the very chains that bind them!
   你看女人们把那根捆住她们的锁链抓得多紧！

Oral splints: the crutches for temporomandibular disorders and bruxism?
Canes, crutches and walkers.
Covers for crutches
Upper limb loadings of gait with crutches.
The dynamics of walking using the hip guidance orthosis (hgo) with crutches.
Energy cost of ambulation with crutches.
Crutches and crutch management
Energy cost, mechanical work and muscular efficiency in swing-through gait with elbow crutches
Bilateral brachial plexus compressive neuropathy (crutch palsy).
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis: current concepts