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单词 impediment
释义
impediment
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ɪmˈped.ɪ.mənt/us
/ɪmˈped.ə.mənt/
something that makesprogress,movement, orachievingsomethingdifficultorimpossible:
妨碍，阻碍；阻止
In anumberofdevelopingcountries,warhas been anadditionalimpedimenttoprogress.在一些发展中国家，战争成了发展的另一阻碍。
Synonym
deterrent
See also
speech impediment
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(Definition ofimpedimentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

impediment| American Dictionary

impediment
noun[C]
us
/ɪmˈped·ə·mənt/
something that makesprogressormovementdifficultorimpossible:
Thelackoffundsis amajorimpediment toresearch.
(Definition ofimpedimentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimpediment

impediment
They were mutually dedicated to reforming institutions and removing privileges that they regarded as impediments to growth and stability.
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The door can be a usefulimpedimentfor comic purposes in the sitcom, but it can also impede the movement of the camera.
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Naivety is important at an early stage - in life or in an undertaking - but a definiteimpedimentlater on.
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It becomes difficult to treat the whole person due to thisimpediment, and it disrupts valuable communication between the patient's two 'halves'.
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So long as these impediments to progress remain, the promise of economic growth and technological change in the rural sector will remain unfulfilled.
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One type of obstacles to navigation consisted of those impediments created by humans.
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This effect is heightened by the increasing importance of trade impediments, which have a much higher information complexity than the tariff, such as sanitary standards.
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For while the profession provided a means of entry into the nation's political elite, it also carried animpedimentto full membership of the club.
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From previous attempts to collect data, it was recognised that reference to long lists of diagnostic codes could be a markedimpedimentto success.
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The respect given to a traditional vernacular is often cited as animpedimentto contemporary interventions especially in rural environments.
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The gorse and the scrub are not just seen as animpedimentto grazing but welcomed as attributes of the common.
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The fourth element was a survey of the opinions of senior managers and front-line practitioners in the study authorities about impediments to care-home diversions.
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Again midlifestylism pays no heed to bodily deterioration, very old age and the structural impediments to the adoption of appropriate lifestyles and attendant identities.
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Fortunately, many of these impediments disappear in the digital world.
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As obstructive undergrowth, the jungle represented animpedimentto progress; as an environment for hostile predators it signified the dread characteristics of man's unenlightened state.
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Collocationswithimpediment

impediment

These are words often used in combination withimpediment.

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legal impediment
The ilmuhaber is never fully transcribed, but the record invariably tells us that it guaranteed that the bride had nolegalimpedimentto matrimony.
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main impediment to
The main impediment to emigration since the war has been at the other end—lack of housing—something over which we have no control.
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major impediment
Few indigenous people have acquired an education, and this is proving to be amajorimpedimentto economic progress.
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