crutch

/krʌtʃ/ uk　 词频 #11589

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crutch 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 拐杖, 支撑, 依靠

vt. 支撑

英文释义

n. a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking

n. anything that serves as an expedient

crutch 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 crutch 在自然语境里怎么用：

Yet the new show hasn’t fully quit all of its chauvinist crutches.

—— <em>Scrubs</em> Has a Sneakily Radical Vision of Male Friendship

She snapped once at a homeless woman and once at a man with crutches, and I thought: She’s afraid of being them.

—— Dylan Landis on How Writing Her Rainey Royal Series Saved Her Life

If most operations stall, availability has become a crutch.

—— Why Always Being Available Is Holding Your Business Back (and How to Stop Being the Bottleneck)

In 1977, economists George Stigler and Gary Becker published a paper that should have inoculated all social scientists and commentators against the culture crutch.

—— What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all

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