impediment
impediment 英 [ɪmˈpedɪmənt] 美 [ɪmˈpedɪmənt]
n. 口吃;妨碍;阻止
名词复数:impediments
- An impediment is anything that slows or blocks progress. It can refer to a physical thing, like a fallen tree in the road, or something more intangible, like how piracy is an impediment to the pleasure cruise industry in Somalia.
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- n. 口吃;妨碍;阻止
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1. Moreover, we do not carry the legacies of the past several years in our banks' or public sector balance sheets that are such an impediment in other places.
此外,我们不必承担那些在银行和公共部门资产负债表中存在的过去几年的遗留问题,这在其他一些地方是如此一个妨碍。
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2. Expectation is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
期待是生活着最大的妨碍 在明天的预期中 遗失了今天.—塞纳卡人
- impediment (n.) c. 1400, from Old French empedement or directly from Latin impedimentum "hindrance," from impedire "impede," literally "to shackle the feet," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- "foot." Related: Impedimental.
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