encumber

verb

1. 妨碍；阻碍；拖累
   to make it difficult for sb to do sth or for sth to happen
   1. The police operation was encumbered by crowds of reporters.
      警方的行动被成群的记者所妨碍。
2. 大（或重）得难以移动；使负担沉重
   to be large and/or heavy and make it difficult for sb to move
   1. The frogmen were encumbered by their diving equipment.
      沉重的潜水装备使蛙人行动困难。

1. VERB 拖累;牵累;妨碍
   If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
   1. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore...
      潜水员向海岸走去时，铅坠和氧气罐使他们步履维艰。
   2. It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
      它现在仍旧被20世纪80年代就深受其累的债务压得喘不过气。
2. VERB 阻塞;堵塞;塞满
   If a place is encumbered with things, it contains so many of them that it is difficult to move freely there.
   1. The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts.
      狭窄的码头被数百辆手推车堵得水泄不通。

1. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore
   潜水员向海岸走去时，铅坠和氧气罐使他们步履维艰。
2. It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
   它现在仍旧被20世纪80年代就深受其累的债务压得喘不过气。
3. The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts.
   狭窄的码头被数百辆手推车堵得水泄不通。
4. You shouldnt let those heavy books encumber you.
   你不该让这些沉重的书阻碍你学习。
5. And how unnecessary it has been for you to toll along on foot, and encumber yourself with this heavy load!
   你这是何苦，要费力地步行走路，自己还带着这样沉重的行李！
6. Objects, such as provisions or baggage, that impede or encumber.
   包袱妨碍或拖累的物体，如装备或者行李。
7. But covered bonds encumber bank assets, leaving less for other creditors.
   但担保债券会对银行资产构成拖累，使留给其它债权人的资产减少。
8. But there are two words which usually encumber these classical arguments, and which we must immediately dispose of if we are to make any progress.
   但有两个术语通常妨碍这些经典论述，我们如果要取得任何进展，必须立刻对它们加以处理。
9. He shall not encumber his brain with the coil of rhythm and number.
   他绝不能使自己的脑子受累于纠缠不清的格律和韵律。
10. One should not encumber oneself with hire purchase repayments at the beginning of a marriage.
    人不应该在婚姻的开始就被购买的租金拖累。
11. Before the credit crunch, bank board directors blithely asked themselves a similar rhetorical question: why encumber our bank with overcautious lending requirements when the system was itself deemed safe?
    在信贷危机之前，银行董事会成员也毫无挂虑地问了自己一个类似的反问句：既然体系自身被视为是安全的，为何要让过分谨慎的借贷要求拖累我们的银行呢？
12. To pledge, hypothecate, sell of assign and otherwise encumber items as described above.
    抵押、担保、出售或转让及上面所列之其他项目。
13. In the first place, to encumber the street;
    首先，为了阻塞道路；
14. Adding the new inhibitor to traditional transitional group element carbides, composite inhibitors become much more effective, obviously induce oriented WC grain growth and evidently encumber plate-like WC grain formation during sintering.
    在传统的过渡族元素碳化物基础上添加新型晶粒长大抑制剂，能明显提高复合抑制剂抑制晶粒长大效果，使WC晶粒在烧结过程中明显发生定向生长，抑制盘状WC晶粒的形成；
15. Down of US economy unable to encumber China
    美国经济衰退不可能拖累中国
16. Environmental hormone disturb the mechanism of internal secretion, make it malajustment, encumber the procreation of organism or bring the malignancy.
    环境激素干扰内分泌代谢机制，造成内分泌失调，可能阻碍生物体生殖功能或引发恶性肿瘤；
17. In contrast, preference for wealth is not necessarily associated with activities that stimulate economic growth, in fact, in most cases it encumber the economic development.
    反之，对财富的偏好却不一定会刺激经济增长，事实上，在大多数情形下，它会阻碍经济的发展。
18. Non-Governmental Staff Bribery Crime is one specific kind of the crimes that encumber the managerial order of companies and corporations, and one manifestation of bribery crime.
    非国家工作人员受贿罪属于妨害对公司、企业的管理秩序罪中的一个罪，同时也属于贿赂犯罪的表现形式之一。
19. All these factors encumber the healthy development of the notary service, and influence the performing of public service efficiency.
    这都极大阻碍了公证行业的健康发展，导致公证的公共服务功效并没有充分发挥出来。

verb

1. hold back

   Synonym:    restraincumberconstrain