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单词 legally blind
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legally blind
legally blind adj. (of a person) classified as having significantly impaired vision according to statutory criteria.In quot. 1902 probably not a fixed collocation.
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1902 Monmouth (Illinois) Republican Atlas 12 Dec. A German dancing master..was described in the charge-sheet as blind... He protested,..as there was nothing wrong with his eye-sight. He was, however, informed that no alteration could be made. In consequence the man will remain legally blind as long as he lives.]
1915 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 6 580 The judges probably first decided that a man was not legally blind unless he was unable to distinguish between light and darkness.
1954 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 17/8 A person is considered legally blind in this country if he cannot read at twenty feet what a person with normal vision can read at 200 feet, or if the field of his vision is no greater than twenty degrees.
2007 J. Cutter Independent Movement & Trav. Blind Children p. xxi In many programs and agencies servicing the blind and visually impaired, the visually impaired child is not ‘legally blind’. This child usually possesses an amount of vision that does not qualify as legal blindness.
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