stymied
英 [ˈstaɪmid]
美 [ˈstaɪmid]
v. 阻挠; 阻碍; 阻止; 妨碍
stymie的过去分词和过去式
COCA.38135
柯林斯词典
- VERB 妨碍;阻挠;阻碍
If youare stymied bysomething, you find it very difficult to take action or to continue what you are doing.- Companies have been stymied by the length of time it takes to reach an agreement...
由于耗时过长,各公司一直未能达成协议。 - Relief efforts have been stymied in recent weeks by armed gunmen.
最近几周的救援工作一直受到武装分子的阻挠。
- Companies have been stymied by the length of time it takes to reach an agreement...
双语例句
- But now they have an opportunity to fix the problem that has stymied successful co-operation on climate change.
但现在,他们有一个机会,去解决阻碍气候变化合作取得成功的问题。 - Fulfilling that desire has, however, stymied experts for decades.
然而愿望达成,却困扰了专家十年之久。 - But bureaucratic and political rivalries between the various municipal and county governments involved have so far stymied attempts to do it.
但是该项目目前涉及的官僚主义,以及各类市政府与下级政府之间的党派竞争,已经完全妨碍了该工作的开展。 - Your archeologists are still stymied by our pyramids.
你们的建筑师还没搞懂我们的金字塔。 - Croatia's hopes of joining the EU have been stymied by a border dispute with neighboring Slovenia.
由于与邻国斯洛文尼亚的领土纠纷,克罗地亚加入欧盟的进程受到阻碍。 - Building codes designed to preserve the architectural character and historic facades of St Petersburg have also stymied the development of inventive architecture.
按照保存圣彼得堡建筑风格和历史外表前提而设计的建筑法规同时也妨碍了发明性建筑。 - A merger between EMI and Warner Music has been stymied by regulators before, and Citigroup may not have the patience for endless wrangling.
EMI和华纳的音乐巨头结合之前收到了监管机构的阻挠,并且花旗集团对没完没了的争执也失去了耐心。 - Slowly through small loans for solar powered devices, microfinance is bringing light to these rural regions where a lack of electricity has stymied economic development, literacy rates and health.
缓慢地通过小额贷款购买太阳能装置,小额信贷正给那些因缺乏电而阻碍了经济、文化教育和医疗发展的农村地区带来了光明。 - Mary Schapiro, the SEC chairman, has tried her best but she was stymied last week.
sec主席玛丽夏皮罗(maryschapiro)已尽了最大的努力,但她在上周完全被束缚住了手脚。 - In our search for evidence, we were stymied by the absence of any recent documents.
缺乏近期的文件资料为我们寻求证据造成了障碍。