stymied

英 [ˈstaɪmid]

美 [ˈstaɪmid]

v. 阻挠; 阻碍; 阻止; 妨碍
stymie的过去分词和过去式

COCA.38135

柯林斯词典

VERB 妨碍;阻挠;阻碍
If youare stymied bysomething, you find it very difficult to take action or to continue what you are doing.
1. Companies have been stymied by the length of time it takes to reach an agreement...
  由于耗时过长，各公司一直未能达成协议。
2. Relief efforts have been stymied in recent weeks by armed gunmen.
  最近几周的救援工作一直受到武装分子的阻挠。

双语例句

The inventor and the Westinghouse engineers were, however, stymied by technical difficulties.
不过，他及西屋的工程师受困于技术上的困难度。
A merger between EMI and Warner Music has been stymied by regulators before, and Citigroup may not have the patience for endless wrangling.
EMI和华纳的音乐巨头结合之前收到了监管机构的阻挠，并且花旗集团对没完没了的争执也失去了耐心。
The Atla-Ra were able to defer the usage initially, but in time were stymied.
阿特拉-Ra起初能够推迟其使用，但很快就被（雅利安人）阻拦了。
Ruthless Corporate Raider will be stymied, go home, curl up on the floor of his shower and weep.
企业狙击手无情先生就会受到阻碍，回家，蜷缩在地上，他的淋浴间和哭泣。
How African governments handle corruption and other governance matters will determine how they manage the major infrastructure challenges that have crippled much of the region and stymied development.
非洲各国政府如何处理腐败和其它治理问题，将决定它们如何应对已影响到非洲大部分地区且阻碍发展的巨大基础设施挑战。
Though I'm not a shy person, I felt stymied.
我并不是一个内向的人，但是却在人际交往中感觉到了障碍。
Mary Schapiro, the SEC chairman, has tried her best but she was stymied last week.
sec主席玛丽夏皮罗（maryschapiro）已尽了最大的努力，但她在上周完全被束缚住了手脚。
Overbearing bureaucrats and excessive regulation has stymied entrepreneurship and competition, hurting the efficiency of the domestic corporate sector.
专断的官僚主义和过分的管制阻碍了企业创新和竞争，降低了公司的效率。
However, they still view each other with an unease that has stymied efforts to build co-operation and trade in areas such as energy, which has been a cornerstone of the Beijing-Moscow strategic partnership, announced in 1996.
不过，俄中互相之间仍存在一种不安，这妨碍了两国在能源等领域进行合作和贸易的努力，而能源是北京和莫斯科方面1996年宣布建立的战略伙伴关系的基石。
Relief efforts have been stymied in recent weeks by armed gunmen.
最近几周的救援工作一直受到武装分子的阻挠。