1.损害,损伤
2.减少,削弱
1.to make something less good or effective, especially by causing damage that affects the way something works
1.The high concentration of official-sector holdings in key securities markets risks impairing the functioning of these markets.
关键证券高度集中于政府部门，可能对这些市场的运转造成损害。
2.The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality.
妨害健康之污染其成本的计量取决于因发病率和死亡率增高而损失的工资收入。
3.Or that a volcanic-ash cloud could turn much of Northern Europe into a no-fly zone, disrupting air travel and impairing economic activity?
火山灰云让北欧大部分地区变成禁飞区，扰乱航空交通，破坏经济活动，这其中的可能性有多少？
4.An LFS specialist can change and extend the very composition of a Linux distribution without impairing its basic structure.
LFS专家可以改变和扩展Linux发行版的完美组合，而不会影响它的基本结构。
5.Zinc dross is the most important factor impairing the surface quality of the hot dip galvanized steel sheets.
锌液中的锌渣是影响热镀锌钢板表面质量的重要因素。
6.The first is inner fear, fear that causes you to become weak, filling you with doubt and confusion, impairing Love of Self.
首先，是内在层面的恐惧，它会让你变得软弱，使你充满怀疑与困惑，并缺乏爱。
7.Banks' reluctance to lend as they strive to repair their overstretched balance-sheets is impairing the effectiveness of monetary policy.
银行因为要努力修复其过度负债的资产负债表而惜贷，货币政策的效果因此被削弱。
8.Regulators believe that they break the link between performance and reward, potentially impairing bankers' risk management.
监管者认为，它割断了业绩和报酬之间的联系，有可能损害银行家的风险管理。
9.impairing in other manners another person's exclusive right to the use of its registered trademark.
给他人的注册商标专用权造成其他损害的。
10.Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass.
在不损坏沙漏的情况下，不管我们怎么做，都不能让两粒沙子同时通过狭窄的瓶颈。