一、详细释义:


n.

(有盖的)大篮子,带盖食品篮 [C]


例句:

There are some apples in the picnic hamper.

在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。


例句:

A nice bottle of vin rouge and a simple picnic hamper will enhance your Orient-Express fantasy.

一瓶上好法国红葡萄酒和一份简单的野餐食盒,将会提升你东方快车之旅的乐趣。


【美】洗衣篮 [C]


例句:

Her husband threw his dirty clothes in the hamper.

丈夫把脏衣服仍进脏衣筐。


例句:

This is a laundry hamper for dirty clothes.

这是个盛放脏衣服的洗衣篮。


障碍物;束缚


例句:

It's a hamper for me.

这对我是个障碍。


v.

妨碍,束缚,限制 [T]


例句:

Our progress was hampered by the bad weather.

我们前进时受到了恶劣天气的阻碍。


例句:

The heavy rain hampers the flow of traffic.

大雨阻碍了交通运行。


二、词义辨析:


block,bar,hinder,obstruct,prevent,hamper

这些动词均含有“阻止、阻塞”之意。 block语气强烈,指有效堵住了通道,使人或物无法通过。 bar含义与block很接近,指阻塞通道或禁止出入,但有对暗示不用障碍物的阻止或禁止。 hinder语气较轻,多指阻碍、拖延人或事,强调使进展速度缓慢下来。 obstruct正式用词,语气强,多指以干扰或设置障碍的方式阻碍交通,使不能自由畅通。 prevent含义广泛,指采取预防措施或设置障碍去阻止某人或某事。 hamper侧重因受到约束或阻碍而造成的行动困难。


三、参考例句:


An obsolete ideology can hamper an economy .

过时的意识形态会束缚经济。


It's a hamper for me.

这对我是个障碍。


You would hamper yourself with that fellow.

你会受到那个家伙的牵连。


Private companies have disadvantages that will hamper their growth.

私营企业有阻碍其自身发展的弊端。


Provincial barriers to trade hamper the efficient allocation of resources.

各省的贸易壁垒阻碍了资源的有效分配。


This is a laundry hamper for dirty clothes.

这是个盛放脏衣服的洗衣篮。


It caused fears that restricted credit will hamper recovery,

有人担心限制贷款将阻碍经济复苏。


There are some apples in a picnic hamper.

在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。


Many modernists think that rhyme and metre hamper the poet's free expression.

很多现代派诗人认为韵律妨碍了诗人的自由发挥。


We hoped in this way to hamper its movements and reduce its speed.

我们希望那样会阻滞它的行动,降低它的速度。