encumber

及物动词<正>妨碍，阻碍，拖累

及物动词

1. 阻碍：compass罗盘 | encumber阻碍 | cumber阻碍,v. n

2. 作产权负担：encroachment on government land 侵占政府土地 | encumber 作产权负担 | encumbrance 产权负担

3. 妨碍：encrust 包以外壳表面结皮 | encumber 妨碍 | encumbrance 阻碍物

4. 妨害,阻碍：incumbent 义不容辞的 | encumber 妨害,阻碍 | recumbent 侧卧的,休息的

1. 拖累;牵累;妨碍
    If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.

    e.g. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore...
           潜水员向海岸走去时，铅坠和氧气罐使他们步履维艰。
    e.g. It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
           它现在仍旧被20世纪80年代就深受其累的债务压得喘不过气。

2. 阻塞;堵塞;塞满
    If a place is encumbered with things, it contains so many of them that it is difficult to move freely there.

    e.g. The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts.
           狭窄的码头被数百辆手推车堵得水泄不通。

1. encumber

1. " This is a complicated process that will encumber the economy for many years, " Battipaglia said.

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