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单词 encumber
释义
encumber
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ɪnˈkʌm.bər/us
/ɪnˈkʌm.bɚ/
toweighsomeone or something down, or to make itdifficultfor someone to do something:
使…负担沉重；妨碍，阻碍；拖累
Today,thankfully, womentennisplayersare not encumberedwith/bylong,heavyskirtsand high-neckedblouses.幸好今天的女子网球运动员打球时不用受笨重的长裙和高领衬衫的束缚了。
Synonym
constrain
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Preventing and impeding
  • anti-jamming
  • avert
  • avoid
  • avoidable
  • bar
  • be a drag onsomeone/somethingidiom
  • bottleneck
  • derail
  • fireproof
  • hang
  • havesomeone/somethinghanging roundyourneckidiom
  • head off
  • hinder
  • hogtie
  • prevent
  • preventable
  • prevention
  • prevention is better than cureidiom
  • preventive
  • scuttle
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Causing difficulties for oneself or others

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encumbrance
(Definition ofencumberfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofencumber

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The second dimension that encumbers research development is the measurement of literacy level.
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They seem toencumberthe principal argument of the study and disturb the coherence of its structure.
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We choose not toencumberreaders with the details.
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Retrospective experimental designs are limited by the data available and encumbered by many potential confounding factors.
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Its emphasis on low-profile activities such as cultural interchange programmes and trade studies is intended to prevent the mechanism from being encumbered by over-ambitious goals.
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They are often encumbered by external constraints in the form of peer pressure, poverty, and impairing social circumstances.
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All the psychological terms that came to mind had been used previously and were encumbered with unwanted connotations.
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Any computer system that would alert the writer to the possibility he meant "personnel" would soencumberyou with intrusions as to be useless.
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Physicians today are not encumbered by organized medicine's earlier restrictions on entrepreneurship.
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A moral theory of the decently encumbered self should be enough.
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These might usefully have been expanded to thin out the main text which becomes encumbered with topographical detail.
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Neither do we want toencumberthe programmer with this tedious and rather low-level task.
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Those providing care to a relative with dementia are particularly encumbered by the scale and complexity of their caring responsibilities.
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They are not normally encumbered with pushing forward an international political agenda.
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So he asks what we are to make of it in an age when we do not wish toencumberour morals with metaphysics.
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