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单词 stymie
释义
stymie
verb[Toften passive]
informal
uk
/ˈstaɪ.mi/us
/ˈstaɪ.mi/
present participlestymieing
topreventsomething fromhappeningor someone fromachievingapurpose:
阻止，妨碍，阻挠
Inoursearchforevidence, we were stymied by theabsenceof anyrecentdocuments.缺乏近期的文件为我们搜寻证据造成了障碍。
Synonym
block
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Preventing and impeding
  • anti-jamming
  • avert
  • avoid
  • avoidable
  • bar
  • be a drag onsomeone/somethingidiom
  • bottleneck
  • derail
  • fireproof
  • hamper
  • hang
  • havesomeone/somethinghanging roundyourneckidiom
  • head off
  • hinder
  • prejudice
  • prevent
  • preventable
  • prevention
  • prevention is better than cureidiom
  • scuttle
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(Definition ofstymiefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

stymie| American Dictionary

stymie
verb[T]
us
/ˈstɑɪ·mi/
present participlestymieingus/ˈstɑɪ·mi·ɪŋ/
topreventsomeone fromachievingagoalor doing something that had beenplanned:
Students were stymied by thetest.
(Definition ofstymiefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstymie

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However, these goals were frequently stymied by the same strong historical consciousness the leaders were trying to utilize.
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Its radical potential is stymied, however, by an overly narrow focus on women's equal participation in public life.
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The issue of whether reduplicative words as a whole are trochaic, iambic, or even spondaic, has stymied their description for a long time.
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Several formidable hurdles still exist, however, thatstymieresearch progress in the area.
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This process, which seems to be intuitively logical, is stymied by imprecise professional knowledge and underdeveloped technology for language analysis and inference.
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Attempts to quantify either the violence or mortality have been stymied by a lack of evidence.
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On the other hand, the standardized good seems tostymiethe archaeologist; it does not enlist the skill set of identifying, classifying and comparing.
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For example, nationalisation of the telegraph system (in 1870) and the telephone system (in 1912) may have stymied efficiency by removing the pressure of competition.
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This is a vivid example of how efforts at reform are stymied by the persistent ministry efforts to maximize its interventionist role.
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Defeated, stymied by the bar across this gate, they all give up and retreat to their desks.
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A second pilgrimage was stymied en route and again resulted in prison sentences for pass violations and trespass.
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The implementation of participatory policies is often stymied by the limits of time and money, bureaucratic infighting and external pressures from powerful elite groups.
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Attempts to clarify the general rules are stymied by the need to avoid impairment of these contractual relations.
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The periods before and after this interlude saw far more political controversy which stymied other civic improvements.
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Surely flame wars over article content willstymiegood intentions.
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