身残志坚：disabled的用法解析

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        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。