英语词汇“obstacle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	obstacle
释义	ob·sta·cle I. \ˈäbz(ˌ)tikəl, -_tə̇k-, -tēk-; ˈäb(ˌ)stik-, -_stə̇k-, -stēk-\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin obstaculum, from obstare to stand before, hinder, from ob- to, against + stare to stand — more at ob-, stand 1. : something that stands in the way or opposes : something that hinders progress : a physical or moral impediment or obstruction : hindrance 2. obsolete : opposition, resistance Synonyms: obstacle, obstruction, impediment, bar, and snag can signify, in common, something which hampers or stops action or progress. obstacle applies to anything which stands in one's way or stops passage < the removal of an obstacle in the throat — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > < the poverty of some of the … districts is an obstacle to good education — B.K.Sandwell > < those obstacles, placed in the path of westward-marching pioneers by nature, must be surmounted before the continent was settled — R.A.Billington > obstruction stresses a blocking of the way or passage < can only be used in straight stretches of water where there are no obstructions — W.H.Dowdeswell > < science deals with a psychological complex much as it deals with an obstruction in the bowels — Albert Dasnoy > < circumvent theobstructions placed in the way of emigration — American Guide Series: New York > impediment, often interchangeable with obstacle, usually suggests something that hinders or delays as by entangling < the rugged hills of the peninsula were no impediment to the discharge of his clerical duties — American Guide Series: Maine > < the most important impediment … to reform, perhaps, is the number and diversity of the plans which have been submitted as possible cures — R.M.Dawson > < the increasing impediments to international trade — D.W.Brogan > bar implies something interposed as between a person and his goal < there were, of course, no bars against immigration in those days — Paul Blanshard > < difference in language should be no bar to friendship > snag applies to an obstacle or a delay encountered suddenly and unexpectedly < his plan to build hit its first snag in the building code > < the operations were constantly running into legal snags which delayed progress considerably > II. adjective obsolete : obstinate III. \pronunc at n\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: obsolete French obstacler, from French obstacle, n., from Middle French : to resist or harass with obstacles
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