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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Because of the holiday period, their attempts to get a quick reply were stymied.
  因为假期，他们试图获得尽早答复的努力受挫了。
• Recoveries are likely to begin outside the financial sector, but they will be stymied without credit.
  经济复苏可能始于金融部门之外，但离开了信贷复苏就会陷入困境。
• 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。
• 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。
• How African governments handle corruption and other governance matters will determine how they manage the major infrastructure challenges that have crippled much of the region and stymied development.
  非洲各国政府如何处理腐败和其它治理问题，将决定它们如何应对已影响到非洲大部分地区且阻碍发展的巨大基础设施挑战。
• Ruthless Corporate Raider will be stymied, go home, curl up on the floor of his shower and weep.
  企业狙击手无情先生就会受到阻碍，回家，蜷缩在地上，他的淋浴间和哭泣。
• The inventor and the Westinghouse engineers were, however, stymied by technical difficulties.
  不过，他及西屋的工程师受困于技术上的困难度。
• 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。
• The Atla-Ra were able to defer the usage initially, but in time were stymied.
  阿特拉-Ra起初能够推迟其使用，但很快就被（雅利安人）阻拦了。
• Mr Lai claims Beijing-backed rivals for years stymied his attempt to list on the stock market.
  黎智英声称亲北京对手多年来设法阻碍他的上市计划。