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Something that blocks or makes it harder to do something — an obstacle in your way. It can be very practical, like money problems being an impediment to starting a business, or physical, like a speech impediment — a difficulty that makes it hard for someone to speak clearly, such as stuttering.
阻礙、障礙；speech impediment＝語言障礙
組成From Latin "impedire": im- (in) + pes/ped- (foot) — literally "to catch someone's foot", meaning to trip them up or hold them back.
同家族的字
- pedalshares the Latin root ped-, meaning foot
原始詞典資料3 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。
impedimentnoun/ɪmˈpɛdɪmənt/
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A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress; impedance.
- I require and charge you (as you will aunswere at the dreadefull daye of iudgemente, when the secretes of all hartes shalbee disclosed) that if either of you doe knowe any impedimente why ye maie not bee lawfully ioyned together in matrimonie, that ye confesse it.
- Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment.
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A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
- Working in a noisy factory left me with a slight hearing impediment.
- And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
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Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
- We were all on foot, officers and men alike. Our horses, baggage, and impediments had been left at Brashear to follow the column of General Emory.
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。