encumber
美音:
[en´kʌmbə
]英音:
[en´kʌmbə
]v.阻碍
难易程度:
encumber为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
动词过去式:encumbered 过去分词:encumbered 现在分词:encumbering 第三人称单数:encumbers
词根
en-=in,into,on,at,near 从“在中间”之意演变成“使进入某种状态~,使成为~”等,把表示to make之意的名词、形容词变为及物动词 变化型 em-
相关词
encumber
/ɪn'kʌmbə(r); ɪn`kʌmbɚ/
v [usu passive 通常用于被动语态
*Tn, Tn.pr] ~ sb/sth (with sth)
1 prevent sb/sth from moving or acting freely and easily 阻碍或妨碍某人[某物]自由活动
*Travelling is difficult when you're encumbered with two small children and a heavy suitcase. 旅行时带着两个孩子和一个沉重的手提箱, 真是寸步难移.
* encumbered with debts 为债务所累.
2 (derog 贬) crowd sth; fill sth up 堆满某物; 充填某物
*a room encumbered with old and useless furniture 堆满无用的旧家具的房间.
encumber
v [T usually passive][
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Old French;Origin: encombrer, from combre
'something that prevents movement']
formal to make it difficult for you to do something or for something to happen
=
burden He died in 1874, heavily encumbered by debt.encumber with The whole process was encumbered with bureaucracy.>encumbrancen[C]