- 1拖累；使行動困難；妨礙（法律：設定負擔）
To encumber someone or something is to load them down so that moving or acting becomes hard. A walker encumbered with bags cannot go fast. Extra rules can encumber a plan.
To encumberencumber someone or something某人或某事 is指的是 to load them down把他們壓上負擔 so that moving or acting becomes hard讓移動或行動變得困難. A walker一個走路的人 encumbered with bags被袋子壓得沉重 cannot go fast就走不快. Extra rules多餘的規定 can encumber a plan可能拖累一個計畫.
It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned word; in speech people more often say weigh down, hold back, or get in the way.
It它 is a formal, slightly old-fashioned word是個正式、有點過時的字; in speech在口語裡, people人們 more often say更常說 weigh down, hold back, or get in the way壓垮、拖住、或擋路.
There is also a legal use: land or a house can be encumbered if someone else has a claim on it — a bank loan on the house, for example — so you cannot sell it freely until that claim is cleared.
There is also有 a legal use一種法律上的用法: land or a house土地或房子 can be encumbered可能被設定負擔 if someone else如果有別人 has a claim on it對它有求償權——a bank loan on the house比如房子上有銀行貸款, for example——so所以 you你 cannot sell it freely不能自由出售它 until that claim is cleared直到那個求償權被清除為止.
Though actually, the everyday picture is physical or practical heaviness, and the legal picture is a paper heaviness. Same shape of idea: you cannot move freely because something is attached.
Though actually不過其實, the everyday picture日常的畫面 is physical or practical heaviness是身體上或實際上的沉重, and而 the legal picture法律上的畫面 is a paper heaviness是紙面上的沉重. Same shape of idea概念的形狀是一樣的: you你 cannot move freely不能自由行動 because something is attached因為有東西附著在上面.
core核心畫面
組成From Middle English encombren, from Old French encombrer, from en- + combrer (“to hinder”). By the look of the English word: en- + cumber. Cumber is an old verb meaning to get in the way.
同家族的字
- encumbrancethe noun: the load or claim that encumbers
- cumbersomesame old cumber (hinder); cumbersome means awkward to handle because of bulk
- unencumberedthe opposite: free of that load or claim
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
encumberverb/ɪnˈkʌmbə(ɹ)/
- 1
To load down something with a burden.
- In the reverse direction, creature comforts were not closely studied, and the vessel left Antwerp at 1 p.m., to arrive in Harwich at the awkward hour of 2 a.m. The boat train was waiting for the weary stream of passengers, who straggled up George Street, encumbered with luggage, or following burdened porters in the darkness.
- 2
To restrict or block something with a hindrance or impediment.
- He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.
- 3
To burden with a legal claim or other obligation.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。