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To impede someone or something is to make it hard for them to move forward or make progress. You have not necessarily stopped them; you have got in the way. Snow can impede traffic. A new rule can impede research. It is a fairly formal verb — in speech people more often say slow down, get in the way of, or hold up. Though actually, writers like it because it sounds precise: the thing is still trying to go forward, but something is dragging at its feet. That picture is close to the history: Latin impediō meant “to shackle,” from pēs, “foot.” Shakespeare used it as a verb in .
妨礙、阻礙、拖慢進度
組成Borrowed from Latin impediō (“to shackle”), from pēs (“foot”) — compare pedestrian.
同家族的字
- impedimenta thing that impedes
- impedanceformed from impede + -ance
- pedestrianshares Latin pēs, “foot”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
impedeverb/ɪmˈpiːd/
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To get in the way of; to hinder.
- impede someone's progress
- That I may powre my Spirits in thine Eare, / And chastise with the valour of my Tongue / All that impeides thee from the Golden Round, / Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme / To haue thee crown'd withall.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。