handicap

复数：handicaps过去式：handicapped过去分词：handicapped现在分词：handicapping第三人称单数：handicaps

1. [C](身体、心理的)残疾 a disability of the body or mind that causes a person serious difficulty
2. [C]障碍,不利条件 any condition or situation likely to cause disadvantage or difficulty

1. vt. 妨碍 cause (sb) to have a disadvantage

• assign〔give〕 a handicap设置不利条件
• overtake a handicap克服障碍

• chief handicap主要的障碍
• definite handicap明确的障碍

• against handicap面对不利条件
• under handicap在不利条件下

• a handicap to对…是一个障碍

• handicap performance〔progress〕影响成绩〔进步〕

• handicap badly极大地妨碍
• handicap mentally〔physically〕智力〔生理〕上有缺陷
• handicap severely严重妨碍

mental handicap心理缺陷；心智障碍

physical handicap身体缺陷；生理缺陷

1. Blindness is a great handicap.
   失明是极大的障碍。
2. Deafness can be a serious handicap.
   耳聋算是严重的缺陷。
3. Poor eyesight is a handicap to a student.
   视力不好对学生来说是一个障碍。
4. It takes a lot of grit to overcome a physical handicap.
   要很大的毅力来克服生理上的障碍。
5. Not speaking the language proved to be a bigger handicap than I'd imagined.
   事实证明不会讲这种语言造成的障碍比我所想像的大。

1. Ignorance can handicap the progress of a city.
   无知会妨碍城市的进步。
2. Being overweight will handicap a boy in sports.
   过重会妨碍孩子搞运动。
3. Otherwise, it will handicap the development of economy as well as that of society.
   如果不适应，则必定既阻碍经济的发展，也阻碍社会的发展。