Encumbered

(adj.) loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; 'a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels'- A.J.Liebling; 'a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack'; 'an encumbered estate' .

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• The latter was encumbered with barges of coal in tow, and consequently could make but little speed against the rapid current of the Mississippi. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Brian de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the field, encumbered with the stirrup, from which he was unable to draw his foot. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But he was unluckily endowed with a good name and a large though encumbered estate, both of which went rather to injure than to advance him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Most of the early telegraphic inventors encumbered their inventions with the same obstacle, as they seemed to consider it necessary to have a separate circuit for each letter of the alphabet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• So encumbered, the Assembly set about its constructive task. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Their branches were encumbered with snow, and it silently dropped off in wet heaps while I stood at the window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And no tyrant-passion dragged him back; no enthusiasms, no foibles encumbered his way. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Her fortune was large, and our family estate much encumbered. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I went on, nevertheless, with a good deal of patience, thinking that his encumbered circumstances were partly the cause. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Martin grinned as he toiled up the steep, encumbered field, difficult to the foot as a slope in the upper realms of Etna. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Being encumbered with the infant, he ran back to meet Thomasin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Her dress was of a lavender colour, and perfectly neat; but scantily made, as if she desired to be as little encumbered as possible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Not the slightest embarrassment encumbered his explanation, though this was his first meeting with me after the scene in Montagu Square. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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