| 词组 | hindrance |
| 释义 | hindrance 1. Hindrance is the common spelling for this word, but the variant hinderance is still occasionally found in 20th-century writing: • The purpose of the stricter judgment of the Fed. [sic] Court is to prevent hinderance of industry by too easily obtained patents —Jour, of the Patent Office Society, June 1943 • The subsequent omission of this facility is not a great hinderance as it is located in an urban enclave — James L. Mulvihill, Professional Geographer, August 1979 2. When used with a preposition, hindrance is usually used with to: • ... his very superiorities and advantages would be the surest hindrance to success —Edith Wharton, 77?^ Age of Innocence, 1920 • ... all these are great hindrances to the development of the world on a liberal scale —Arnold J. Toynbee, quoted in Arnold J. Toynbee et al., "Will Businessmen Unite the World?" April 1971 Less frequently but still commonly, hindrance is used with of, as in the Patent Office Society example above and in the following: • ... he still felt his rebellion against odious fate, everyone's fate, death, war; his tremor of knee and hindrance of speech —Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens, 1945 |
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