从wiktionary上来看:
disability词义有三:
1State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. -Milton.
Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. -Bancroft.
2Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. -Abbott.
3The combination of a physical or intellectual impairment of an individual and the social attitudes and environment that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from performing his/her normal job.
貌似第2条,通过司法途径鉴定为残障。
又在百度里找到了一个例句:
On Friday, a third person died. I did volunteer work with him. Actually, I served on the board of a non-profit where he was staff. We made the decision to fire him, and I was one of the strong voices to let him go. During the transition, he developed cancer. Rather than continuing the termination process, we allowed him to go on disability. His health insurance continued for he and his family. He may have been a pain in the ass, insubordinate and disruptive, but when his illness became public, the organization did the right thing and allowed him the dignity and respect he had earned.
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