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wheelchair

/hweel-chair, weel-/US // ˈʰwilˌtʃɛər, ˈwil- //UK // (ˈwiːlˌtʃɛə) //

轮椅,輪椅,轮椅上,轮椅上的人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.

Examples

  • After the shooting, he used a wheelchair — gold-plated and velvet-lined to his specifications.

  • She can only move via a wheelchair and can’t speak, so he developed hand gestures with Holly to communicate.

  • Her experience both as a soldier and as someone who uses a wheelchair are evident in how she reacted to the danger of the moment.

  • Police had no trouble arresting people who peacefully protested George Floyd’s death last summer or arresting people in wheelchairs who peacefully protested against repealing the Affordable Care Act.

  • My 85-year-old father loved people, and he waved hello to everyone as he tooled around his Escondido assisted-living facility in his tricked-out electric wheelchair.

  • The series also reversed a long trend that saw the character paralyzed by the Joker and confined to a wheelchair for a decade.

  • Jasmin helps her transfer in and out of her wheelchair, get dressed, and bathe.

  • Former Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham is paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair.

  • She could no longer go to the orchestra; she was confined to a wheelchair.

  • Unfortunately, his disability—he is wheelchair-bound—was also in her crosshairs.

  • Farrow was going down the hall like a professional heading for the wheelchair on a strict order.

  • The wheelchair was one of those old large ones with a wicker seat and back.

  • Had it not been for the doctor, Mercy might never have gotten out of her wheelchair, or gone to Briarwood Hall.

  • "Tough," I said, thinking of the kid sitting out there all day in his wheelchair, straining his eyes across the palmetto flats.

  • It was tough enough to be pinned to a wheelchair without being able to wiggle so much as a toe.