crutch
n. 柺杖; 支援物; 精神上的寄託; 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...
我不用柺杖也能自己走。
I was on crutches for a while.
有一段時間我拄拐。
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...
計算器是工具,不是柺杖,可是現在很多孩子越來越依賴它。
He gave up the crutch of alcohol.
他戒掉了酒癮。
Your crutch is the same as your crotch .
He kicked him in the crutch.
他踢了他的襠部。
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.
我媽說,搞寫作不無小補.
But I am afraid you have to use a crutch for a week.
不過你恐怕得撐一個星期的柺杖才行.
Her religion was a crutch to her when John died.
約翰死後,她在精神上依靠宗教信仰支撐住自己.
Peter Carrington was a vital crutch in those early days abroad.
在早期外交事務中,彼得?卡靈頓是重要的依靠.
He uses his wife as a kind of crutch because of his lack of confidence.
他缺乏自信心,總把妻子當作主心骨.