crutch
n. 拐杖; 支持物; 精神上的寄托; 胯部
A crutch is a stick whose top fits round or under the user's arm, which someone with an injured foot or leg uses to support their weight when walking.
I can walk without the aid of crutches...
我不用拐杖也能自己走。
I was on crutches for a while.
有一段时间我拄拐。
If you refer to someone or something as a crutch, you mean that they give you help or support.
The calculator is a tool, not a crutch; yet it is increasingly being used as a crutch by many children...
计算器是工具,不是拐杖,可是现在很多孩子越来越依赖它。
He gave up the crutch of alcohol.
他戒掉了酒瘾。
Your crutch is the same as your crotch .
He kicked him in the crutch.
他踢了他的裆部。
1. a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking
2. anything that serves as an expedient;
My mother says that writing is a good crutch.
我妈说,搞写作不无小补.
But I am afraid you have to use a crutch for a week.
不过你恐怕得撑一个星期的拐杖才行.
Her religion was a crutch to her when John died.
约翰死后,她在精神上依靠宗教信仰支撑住自己.
Peter Carrington was a vital crutch in those early days abroad.
在早期外交事务中,彼得?卡灵顿是重要的依靠.
He uses his wife as a kind of crutch because of his lack of confidence.
他缺乏自信心,总把妻子当作主心骨.