| 单词 | hamper |
| 释义 | ham·per I. 1. a. < elaborate hampering clothes — James Laver > < icebergs hampered the progress of the ship > < pitching … violently in the seaway, hampered by her heavy tow — R.S.Porteous > b. < radio communications hampered by static — Globe & Mail > 2. a. < the view … that rhyme and meter hamper the poet's free expression — J.L.Lowes > < did nothing to hamper the boisterousness of the occasion — Silas Spitzer > b. < an obsolete ideology can hamper an economy — V.G.Childe > < hampered by lack of money as often as by lack of initiative — H.J.Hanham > Synonyms: < like other branches of science, history is now encumbered and hampered by its own mass — Henry Adams > < his principle was to choose competent lieutenants, and then to leave them to work without hampering interference — Irish Digest > < hampered in his progress by the weight of a large bundle on his back > clog usually implies a foreign useless impediment that clings, gums up, or obstructs < all common ambitions, rank, possessions, power, the things which clog man's feet — John Buchan > < his mind is clogged with the strangest miscellany of truth and marvel — V.L.Parrington > < waved the traffic away from the clogged thoroughfare — Ralph Gustafson > trammel suggests entanglement by or confinement within a net < had now become trammeled in events — Ethel Wilson > < a landscape of increasing strangeness, replete with things shocking to a culture-trammeled understanding — B.L.Whorf > fetter suggests the total or almost total crippling restraint of chains or manacles < a tendency toward introversion … had slowly mastered him, fettering his actions and segregating him in an unhappy little world — I.V.Morris > < watched a world prepare for war while he was fettered by the nation's propensity for isolationism — Estes Kefauver > shackle and manacle are very similar to although stronger than fetter, usually suggesting a total impeding of action < if the power of the courts stereotypes legislation within the forms and limits … expedient in the 19th or perhaps the 18th century, it shackles progress and breeds distrust and suspicion of the courts — B.N.Cardozo > < keep Rome manacled hand and foot: no fear of unruliness — Robert Browning > hog-tie implies a making completely helpless or a total thwarting < as soon as the senator can get us hog-tied to that extent, he will … ram these unconstitutional measures down our throats — Congressional Record > < accuse Americans of being hog-tied to business — advt > II. 1. archaic < if the Fourteenth Amendment is not to be a greater hamper … than I think was intended — O.W.Holmes †1935 > 2. III. a. < a picnic hamper > < helped … the yardman to pack the game in hampers — Adrian Bell > b. c. d. IV. chiefly Britain 1. < trifles … hampered up together — T.A.Browne > 2. < something particularly charming about being hampered at Christmas time — Westminster Gazette > |
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