impediments

英 [ɪmˈpɛdɪmənts]

美 [ɪmˈpɛdəmənts]

n.  妨碍; 阻碍; 障碍; 口吃; 结巴
impediment的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 妨碍;阻碍;障碍物
  Something that is animpediment toa person or thing makes their movement, development, or progress difficult.
  1. He was satisfied there was no legal impediment to the marriage.
     这一婚姻没有任何司法上的障碍，他对此很满意。
• N-COUNT (言语)障碍
  Someone who has a speechimpedimenthas a disability which makes speaking difficult.
  1. John's slight speech impediment made it difficult for his mother to understand him.
     约翰有轻微的言语障碍，这令母亲很难理解他的话。

双语例句

• Southern Voter Registration Boards imposed overwhelming bureaucratic impediments to qualified black voters and subjected them to harassment, economic reprisals and physical violence.
  南方选民注册委员会对合格的黑人选民施加了压倒性的官僚障碍，包括骚扰，经济报复和身体暴力等手段。
• Policies are thus needed to rectify this situation, by removing impediments to the transfer and dissemination of knowledge and to lower the costs and risks of technology acquisition.
  要改变这种情形，就要制定政策，清除知识转让和推广的障碍，降低获得技术的成本和风险。
• What would have been the impediments to doing this?
  这样做会遇到什么阻碍呢？
• By lowering trade barriers, and other trade-related impediments, the WTO system helps break down other social, cultural, and political barriers between peoples and nations.
  通过降低关税壁垒和其他的贸易相关的阻碍，世界贸易组织系统帮助分解人们和国家间的其他的社会，文化和政治壁垒。
• Rather, use any issues and impediments to drive the necessary organizational changes that help the enterprise to improve.
  相反，要利用发现的问题和障碍，使之驱动组织进行必要的调整，这将对整个企业起到改善作用。
• The financial crisis and the saturation of the employment market cannot but bring graduates various pressures so that some subtle changes and impediments have been formed in their psychology.
  经济危机和就业市场的饱和，必然给高校毕业生带来种种压力，由此他们的心理产生了微妙的变化和各样的心理动态。
• It is right because the nation faces structural impediments to growth.
  之所以说是正确的，是因为美国面临着增长的结构性障碍。
• The impediments to the operation have disappeared.
  我们行动的障碍已经消除了。
• Liberty means the absence of constraints or impediments to action.
  现代自由意味着人们的行动，将免于他人的妨碍或是国家的强制约束。
• Attitudes and beliefs about one's life and about chronic illness can be impediments to treatment.
  一个人的生命的态度和对慢性疾病的信念和可以治疗的障碍。