encumber

1. V-T If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want. 拖累; 阻礙[v-link ADJ, usu ADJ 'with/by' n]

Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore. 當潛水員們走向海岸時，鉛墜和氧氣缸讓他們步履維艱。

It is still labouring under the debt that it was encumbered with in the 1980s. 它現(xiàn)在仍舊背負著在20世紀80年代就深受其累的債務(wù)。

2. encumberedADJ

The rest of the world is less encumbered with legislation. 世界上的其它國家沒有這般受到立法的約束。