| 词汇 | impede |
| 释义 | impede verb[ T ] formaluk /ɪmˈpiːd/ us /ɪmˈpiːd/ to make it more difficult for something to happen or more difficult for someone to do something: 妨碍，阻碍；阻止 Although he's shy, it certainly hasn't impeded his career in any way.尽管他很害羞，但这显然一点儿也没有妨碍他的事业。 Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof frustration guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom preclusion preclusive prejudice prevent preventable scuttle smother suffocate impede | American Dictionaryimpede verb[ T ] us/ɪmˈpid/ to slow something down or prevent an activity from making progress at its previous rate: Shortages of medicine were impeding the effort to control diseases. Examples of impedeimpede But they certainly show that grammatical competence does not parallel linguistic performance and that processing tasks impede performance. The door can be a useful impediment for comic purposes in the sitcom, but it can also impede the movement of the camera. This fundamental difference impedes the development of an open dialogue, let alone a creative level of understanding. Perceptual fine-tuning of such stimuli and the formation of representations of social stimuli are impeded. The powers that previous mayors enjoyed were seriously impeded, and they became powerless to solve citizens' economic and social problems. These drugs appear to act by impeding semantic organization at encoding. However, in easier tasks the rivaling articulatory dual task does not impede performance. The retailers, so they argued, were impeding the government's deflationary policy and were indirectly attacking the buying power of wage-earners. These structural differences were highly significant from the point of view of assisting or impeding the output of controversial literature. They also contributed to tensions within unions and between them and liberal-leaning public interest groups, impeding efforts to form an effective health-care reform coalition. This methodological approach can be useful for lots of purposes, but it has impeded understanding of my own views. Tumour vessels are extremely leaky and tortuous, which impedes uniform blood flow, oxygenation and drug delivery in tumours. Such a construction would have impeded the natural, southerly flow of water and thus protected the residential area to the south from flooding and sedimentation. Luckily, the error that has impeded acceptance of this way of viewing matters can be readily identified and corrected. As for those countries seeking entry into that organization, foreign property restrictions will impede the capital market integration that entry would otherwise bring about. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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