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

• Growing use of secured borrowing risks becoming a vicious circle: if investors charge more for unsecured borrowing because of rising asset encumbrance, banks will be forced to tie up even more of their very best loans to raise funds.
  发行越来越多的担保借款，可能正成为一种恶性循环：如果由于资产拖累不断加重，投资者会向无担保借款收取更高的利率，而银行将被迫绑定更多的最优质贷款，以筹集资金。
• Before the crunch, the sheer size of some institutions was an encumbrance to rational analysis.
  金融危机之前，一些机构庞大的规模妨碍了理性分析。
• 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。
• The widow advertised herself as "without encumbrance".
  那寡妇登了告白注明无儿女牵累。
• "Conveyance" includes every assignment, lease, mortgage, or encumbrance.
  让与包括各种转让、借、押或留置。
• 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？
• I felt I was being an encumbrance to them.
  我感到自己成了他们的累赘。
• 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。
• Magdalena considered the past an irrelevant encumbrance.
  玛格达莱娜把过去看作毫不相干的累赘。
• The Nature supplies them appropriately but the supply is not given too much to be their encumbrance.
  自然适得其分地供应他们各种所需，可是自然的供应不会多到成为他们的负累。