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disability

/dis-uh-bil-i-tee/US // ˌdɪs əˈbɪl ɪ ti //UK // (ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ) //

残疾,残疾人,残疾问题,残疾情况

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dis·a·bil·i·ties.

    • : lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
    • : a physical or mental handicap, especially one that hinders or prevents a person from performing tasks of daily living, carrying out work or household responsibilities, or engaging in leisure and social activities.
    • : anything that disables or puts one at a disadvantage: His mere six-foot height will be a disability in professional basketball.
    • : the state or condition of being disabled.
    • : legal incapacity; legal disqualification.
    • : disability insurance.

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Examples

  • If they’re designed well, for example, AI-based learning tools have been shown to improve children’s critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, and they can be useful for kids with learning disabilities.

  • Central Aroostook Association, a Presque Isle nonprofit that helps children with intellectual disabilities, switched to the co-op last year to save 20% on its health premiums, said administrator Tammi Easler.

  • Users with disabilities might also want to compare their statistics to their non-wheelchair-using friends.

  • Anyone from an underrepresented group — including people of color, women, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities — is welcome to apply to be a mentee.

  • MTS changed its vetting process in March 2011 after the agency reported a spike in the number of seniors and people with disabilities with reduced-fare passes.

  • An IQ below 70 generally indicates someone with intellectual disability (ID).

  • As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.

  • Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, a longtime disability advocate, has made HCBS a priority, a Harkin aide told The Daily Beast.

  • Jason Kingsley, the son of one of the producers, would go on to appear 55 times on the show talking about his disability.

  • What if the pain her mother and doctors observed had nothing to do with disability, but was in fact pain?

  • Their disability however has been largely removed by statutes in all the states, as we shall learn in another place.

  • But a disability arising after the statute has begun to run in his favor will not prevent it from running.

  • In the face of such motives, in the disability under which I labor of stopping the evil, I had to seek my own safety.

  • On the 14th of October, 1862, Mr. Walter was honorably discharged from the service on account of disability.

  • (b) For total or partial disability for less than five years, 60 per cent.