身殘志堅：disabled的用法解析

Are you telling us you can send out a signal that will disable all their shields?

——Independence Day

你可以靠傳送訊號使防護罩失效?

——《獨立日》

一、你知道disabled有幾種含義嗎？

adj.

1.殘疾的，傷殘的；[the ~]殘疾人 unable to use a part of your body completely or easily because of a physical condition, illness, injury, etc.; unable to learn easily

The car has been adapted for [disabled] drivers.

這車改裝過以合乎殘障駕駛的需要。

2.殘疾的，有缺陷的 physically or mentally impaired in a way that substantially limits activity especially in relation to employment or education

Employers are being encouraged to hire disabled workers.

僱主受鼓勵僱用殘廢的工人。

v.

使喪失能力；使傷殘:to injure or affect sb permanently so that, for example, they cannot walk or cannot use a part of their body

 He was disabled in a car accident.
他在車禍中殘廢了。  

二、接下來，做個填詞遊戲吧

Pity welled up in her heart as she watched the disabled child. 
當她看到那個殘疾孩子的時候，憐憫之心涌上心頭。