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词汇 roadblock
释义 roadblock
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈrəʊd.blɒk/ us /ˈroʊd.blɑːk/
a temporary structure put across a road to stop traffic: 路障
Police put up/set up roadblocks on all roads out of the town in an effort to catch the bombers.警察在所有出城的路上都设了路障,企图抓获放置炸弹的人。
 
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roadblock | American Dictionary


roadblock
noun[ C ]
us/ˈroʊdˌblɑk/
a temporary structure put across a road to stop traffic, esp. to try to stop illegal activity:
a police roadblock
fig.A roadblock can also be anything that stops progress:
There have been several roadblocks in the peace process.

Examples of roadblock


roadblock
Neurocognitive dysfunction in dually-diagnosed patients: a potential roadblock to motivating behavior change.
His star would rise quickly during 2000 when he led massive roadblocks in the highlands that forced concessions on agrarian policy.
It is a roadblock in the path of integrating the social and natural sciences, and weaning sociology and anthropology from its social constructivist traditions.
Despite these many advances, automatic identification of semantic relationships in text remains the largest roadblock to agent exploitation of text.
However, cultural competency efforts do not guarantee a moral climate, particularly in the face of systemic inequities and other roadblocks.
The roadblock is, thus, a suitable strategy to informally ' impeach ' unpopular policies or politicians and to secure negotiations for concrete claims.
The roadblock as a central form of protest perfectly fits the characteristics of contentious collective action described so far.
Defaulters may be visited in their homes, or people may be required to show their tax receipts at roadblocks.
Even after careful definition, archaeology faces a number of roadblocks peculiar to its data.
Many are turned back at roadblocks, and entire villages are cut off from one another.
Or, it may create artificial roadblocks in repatriation endeavours, particularly when there is economic and political capital to be extracted from the presence of refugees.
Finally, it proved difficult to repeatedly mobilise the basis for massive roadblocks or levantamientos.
For over 35 years, beliefs about the learnability of natural language have acted as roadblocks in the way of further development in linguistics.
Beyond such theoretical roadblocks, other imperatives were in motion in the chemistry discipline that were to merit high priority.
This wrangle is an essentially political roadblock and there are a number of ways around it.
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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