1. 拖累;牽累;妨礙 If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
e.g. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore... 潛水員向海岸走去時(shí)，鉛墜和氧氣罐使他們步履維艱。 e.g. It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s. 它現在仍舊被20世紀80年代就深受其累的債務(wù)壓得喘不過(guò)氣。
encumbered The rest of the world is less encumbered with legislation... 世界上的其他國家沒(méi)有這般受立法的限制。 I'm sure we all wish to be less encumbered by rules which we think unnecessary and restricting. 我肯定我們大家都希望少受那些我們認為并非必要而且束縛手腳的規矩的羈絆。
2. 阻塞;堵塞;塞滿(mǎn) If a place is encumbered with things, it contains so many of them that it is difficult to move freely there.
e.g. The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts. 狹窄的碼頭被數百輛手推車(chē)堵得水泄不通。