stunted

常见例句

An abnormal climate stunted the crops.
不正常的气候妨碍了庄稼的正常生长。
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Yes, – you live, but you live a sickly fearful existence stunted like a tree permanently in the shadow of other peoples' opinions.
是的，你生活着，但是你却以一种病态的方式生活着，像一颗发育不良的树，生活在大树的阴影下。
The PAR for selected studies indicated that if the infant population were entirely unexposed to maternal depressive symptoms 23% to 29% fewer children would be underweight or stunted.
研究选定的人群特异危险度(PAR)表明:如果幼儿群体完全没有暴露在母亲抑郁症状中,则体重不足或发育不良的儿童可减少23%–29%。

In the societies they left, choices were restricted, dreams stunted and the material benefits limited.
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The lilies, it turned out, contained a poison, later dubbed cyclopamine, that stunted developing lamb embryos.
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