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Impedimenta is a rather grand, slightly word for all the things you are carrying or doing that you feel you need — bags, gear, extra tasks — but which actually slow you down. It was borrowed from Latin around 1600, where impedimenta was the baggage of an army: the stuff that follows the soldiers and can hold them back. In English it is not an everyday word. When people use it, they are often being humorous or literary: “the impedimenta of family life” might mean the buggies, bags, and snacks that turn a short trip into a long procession. Though actually, it sits next to impediment, but impediment is usually one obstacle (and, in “speech impediment,” a difficulty in speaking). Impedimenta is the pile of stuff.
累贅、行囊雜物（帶點幽默的書面用語；不是日常口語）
組成Learned borrowing from Latin impedimenta, circa 1600. Compare impediment. In Latin it was the baggage that “shackles” an army, from the same root as impede.
同家族的字
- impedimentsame Latin family; impediment is the usual English word for a single obstacle
- impedethe verb: to slow someone or something down
原始詞典資料2 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。
impedimentanoun/ɪmˌpɛdɪˈmɛntə/
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Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.
- On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
- Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.
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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。