encumbrance

英 [ɪnˈkʌmbrəns]

美 [ɪnˈkʌmbrəns]

n.  妨碍者; 累赘; 障碍物

复数：encumbrances　

法律

BNC.26434 / COCA.30197

牛津词典

noun

• 妨碍者；累赘；障碍物
  a person or thing that prevents sb from moving easily or from doing what they want
  1. I felt I was being an encumbrance to them.
     我感到自己成了他们的累赘。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 拖累;障碍;累赘
  Anencumbranceis something or someone that encumbers you.
  1. Magdalena considered the past an irrelevant encumbrance.
     玛格达莱娜把过去看作毫不相干的累赘。

英英释义

noun

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
  Synonym:hindrancehinderancehitchpreventivepreventativeincumbranceinterference
• an onerous or difficult concern
  1. the burden of responsibility
  2. that's a load off my mind
  Synonym:burdenloadincumbranceonus
• a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
  Synonym:incumbrance

双语例句

• What a cloud of innumerable witnesses surround us! So let us be rid of every encumbrance, and especially of sin, to persevere in running the race marked out before us.
  所以，我们既有如此众多如云的证人，围绕著我们，就该卸下各种累赘和纠缠人的罪过，以坚忍的心，跑那摆在我们面前的赛程。
• It was begun, incidentally, by Pierre Varignon who sought to free dynamics from the encumbrance of geometry.
  皮埃尔？伐里农在进行把动力学从几何学的束缚下解放出来的探索中，顺便开始了这个工作。
• But carelessly become your encumbrance.
  却不小心成为你的累赘。
• Recognizing this encumbrance, many command-line utilities allow you to provide your username and password as command-line arguments.
  正因为认识到这些阻碍的存在，所以许多命令行实用工具都允许您将用户名和密码作为命令行参数。
• Statement of expenditures and encumbrance compared with appropriation
  支出及保留数与核定拨款数比较表
• Public domain material which is free from copright encumbrance and freely available to anyone who wishes to use it.
  公开领域并无版权限制，可任人随意提取和使用的资料。
• The widow advertised herself as "without encumbrance".
  那寡妇登了告白注明无儿女牵累。
• Absence from fund and financing hard become bottlenecks of small and medium-sized family enterprises'more development, and encumbrance of family economy heavy development.
  缺资金、融资难，成为制约中小型家族企业进一步发展的瓶颈，从而严重阻碍了家族经济的健康发展。
• Severe pain, by impairing a patient's ability to listen and understand, is an encumbrance to the informed consent process.
  剧烈疼痛能够削弱患者的倾听及理解能力，因而成为知情同意过程的障碍。
• Their thinking: If I can manage without the encumbrance and bother of a coat, then why not?
  他们的想法是：如果能够摆脱累赘又麻烦的外套，又何乐而不为呢？