If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
例句
Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore...潛水員向海岸走去時，鉛墜和氧氣罐使他們步履維艱。It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.它現(xiàn)在仍舊被20世紀80年代就深受其累的債務壓得喘不過氣。
VERB
阻塞;堵塞;塞滿
If a place is encumbered with things, it contains so many of them that it is difficult to move freely there.
例句
The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts.狹窄的碼頭被數(shù)百輛手推車堵得水泄不通。