ADJ
有嚴重危害的
If you say that an action, policy, or situation has a crippling effect on something, you mean it has a very serious, harmful effect.
例句
The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small American high-tech firms...
高昂的資金成本嚴重影響了美國的很多小型高科技公司。
The American military presence on the islands had suffered a crippling blow.
該群島上的美國部隊受到了嚴重打擊。