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单词 encumbrance
释义
encumbrance
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ɪnˈkʌm.brəns/us
/ɪnˈkʌm.brəns/
something that makes itdifficultfor you to do something:
累赘；负担
When you'rewalking30milesaday, the fewer encumbrances thebetter.如果你一天要步行三十英里，越少赘物越好。
He has nopatiencefor theirritationsand encumbrances ofcelebrity.他忍受不了做名人的烦恼和负担
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  • Hercancerhas notprovedto be an encumbrance on herdailylife.
  • Weenjoyexploringthecitywithout the encumbrance of acar.
  • Thecompanyhasscrappedthe encumbrance offixedproductiontargets.
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  • 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
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(Definition ofencumbrancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

encumbrance| Business English

encumbrance
noun[CorU]
uk
/ɪnˈkʌmbrəns/us
LAW,PROPERTY
amortgageor otherchargeon aproperty, or thefactof apropertyhaving amortgage, etc.:
An encumbrance is alegalclaimon apropertythataffectsthe owner'sabilitytotransfertheownershipof theproperty.
something that makes itdifficultto do things:
He hadpaidoff hisloansand wasfreeof the encumbrance ofdebt.
(Definition ofencumbrancefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofencumbrance

encumbrance
An electronic machine, in effect, is not a tool given to the musician without encumbrances.
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This concept circumscribes the prerogatives and encumbrances of a particular type of social membership, whose scope has generally been established by the nation-state.
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Several of our authors suggest ways of preventing or managing thisencumbranceof intellectual property.
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Theencumbranceof private ownership: are we facing a 'tragedy of the anti-commons'?
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In other words, they may not have theencumbranceof old-fashioned expectations of the behaviour appropriate for older people.
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He and this industry's trade press journalists are all specialists and would find a general press officer anencumbrance.
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If this were the case, then marriage might even begin to appear an unnecessaryencumbranceon a woman's energies.
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It was not about negotiating voluntary agreements where access is viewed as anencumbranceon private land but rather an expression of rights.
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While linguists might delight in the usefulness and elegance of the concept, for most learners it would be an unnecessaryencumbrance.
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Then operations will always use the correct function, and only the creation operations will have theencumbranceof taking the function as a parameter.
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He certainly wanted to be free from distractions and encumbrances when he was working, but nothing in his actions looks like 'bonding' with a particular place.
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Looking at our sundry communal attachments through this morally more critical eye, we find that some of the encumbrances which seem sociologically, psychologically or ontologically necessary also seem morally desirable.
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They were able to carry out their tasks without theencumbranceof a complex organisation; generally each part of their expedition was under their control rather than committees.
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A case-marking system is little more than anencumbrancein a language when the forms no longer clearly signal any information which aids in understanding the message.
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The loquaciousness which had already irritated friends at the university, his words that would "blossom into _ower," now becomes a decidedencumbrancesince his father disowned him.
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