stunted

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An abnormal climate stunted the crops.
不正常的氣候妨礙了莊稼的正常生長。
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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，你生活著，但是你卻以一種病態(tài)的方式生活著，像一顆發(fā)育不良的樹，生活在大樹的隂影下。
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.
研究選定的人群特異危險度(PAR)表明:如果幼兒群躰完全沒有暴露在母親抑鬱癥狀中,則躰重不足或發(fā)育不良的兒童可減少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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A stunt is something interesting that is done in order to attract attention and get publicity for the person or company responsible for it.
A stunt is a dangerous and exciting piece of action in a movie.
If something stunts the growth or development of a person or thing, it prevents it from growing or developing as much as it should.
stunted
to perform a stunt or stunts