Impediment

(n.) That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

(v. t.) To impede.

巴拉克编辑

• Young couples, who had loved long and hopelessly, suddenly found every impediment removed, and wealth pour in from the death of relatives. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• There was yet another delay to that quiet talk with Sir Percival--and the Countess was the impediment this time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Still there is no impediment to returning to the door for thy brushing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Baggage, women, everything was abandoned by Bessus and his captains; and one other impediment also they left behind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The expense need not be any impediment. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Wheresoever the strong tide met with an impediment, his gaze paused for an instant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Pin the villains to the earth with my lance, Wamba, if they offered us any impediment. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I was stopped there by a momentary impediment of the breath. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Nay, said my companion, I can free you from your present impediment. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He was an able constitutional lawyer and jurist; but the Constitution was not an impediment to him while the war lasted. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Miss Helstone had not suffered the storm to prove an impediment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Richard himself was the chief impediment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• What is the nature of the impediment? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• This was a strange speech, now that, on the empty stage, each might play his part without impediment from the other. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They insinuated themselves into the substances about them, and the impediments to their progress yielded at their touch. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The inquest was the first of the impediments in the way of my freedom of action. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He had two selves within him apparently, and they must learn to accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Impediments, raised by others, had, years ago, come in the way of our intercourse, and cut it off. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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