encumber

1. V-T If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want. 拖累; 阻碍[v-link ADJ, usu ADJ 'with/by' n]

Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore. 当潜水员们走向海岸时，铅坠和氧气缸让他们步履维艰。

It is still labouring under the debt that it was encumbered with in the 1980s. 它现在仍旧背负着在20世纪80年代就深受其累的债务。

2. encumberedADJ

The rest of the world is less encumbered with legislation. 世界上的其它国家没有这般受到立法的约束。