音标:[meim] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
vt. 使残废, 使不能工作, 使伤残
[医] 伤残, 残废
v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
词型变化:过去分词 : maimed ; 现在分词 : maiming ; 第三人称单数 : maims ; 过去式 : maimed ; 名词复数形式 : maims
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maim的用法和样例:

例句

用作动词(v.)
  1. He was maimed in a First World War battle.他在第一次世界大战的一埸战斗中受伤致残。
  2. She survived the accident but she was maimed for life and will never walk again.她在意外事故中大难不死,但却终身残废,再也不能行走了。

经典引文

  • They are so eminent..that their omission would make a maim in history.

    出自:T. Fuller
  • A crowd gathered round the scaffold when Prynne and Bastwick and Burton were to suffer maim.

    出自:G. Bancroft
  • Oh, defend us from death and horrible maims.

    出自:T. H. White
  • His own life being maim, some of them are not admitted in his theory.

    出自:R. L. Stevenson
  • Pulling down hedges,..firing barns, maiming cattle.

    出自:Burke
  • Most were maimed for life by having a hand or foot cut off.

    出自:P. Warner
  • To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature.

    出自:J. Wyndham
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