mutilated adj. 残缺的;破坏的
v. 切断;使残废(mutilate的过去分词)
- The pilot was mutilated in the plane crash and now has only one leg.
飞行员在飞机失事事故中残废了,现在只剩下了一条腿。 - Fortunately for them, the Bank of England has a team called Mutilated Ladies which deals with claims from people who fed their money to a machine or to their dog.
[对英国人来说,值得庆幸的是英国银行有一个残钞鉴别组,负责处理那些把钱塞进机器或塞给狗的人提出的索赔要求. - John went to see his bank manager who sent the remains of wallet and the money to the special department of the Bank of England in Newcastle: the Mutilated Ladies!
约翰去找他的银行经理,他把残留的钱包和钱的残留物送到了英格兰银行在新城堡(纽卡斯尔)的特殊(专门)部门:残币鉴别组。
mutilated[ adj ]
having a part of the body crippled or disabled
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mutilated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Mutilating}.]
1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim;
to cripple; to disfigure; to hack; as, to mutilate the
body, a statue, etc.
2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render
imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is
none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of
Sappho. --Addison.
{Mutilated gear}, {Mutilated wheel} (Mach.), a gear wheel
from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It
is used for giving intermittent movements.
mutilated \mutilated\ adj.
1. badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent
disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.
Syn: maimed.
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3. damaged, often deliberately; -- of compositions; as, a
mutilated text. Opposite of {undamaged} or {intact}.
Syn: mangled, mutilated.
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