cumber

英式音标：cumber怎么读

美式音标：cumber怎么读

词汇归类： GRE

近义词： oppress

cumber词义

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vt. 阻碍，妨害；使受苦n. 拖累，累赘；妨害n. (Cumber)人名；(英)坎伯

cumber 妨害，拖累

来自古英语combren,来自ber-,带来，承受，词源同bear,burden.

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1. We shall not cumber our thought with his reproaches.: 我们不要受他责难的影响,思想裹步不前.

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cumber (v.): c. 1300, "to overthrow, destroy; to be overwhelmed; to harass," apparently from French, but Old French combrer "to seize hold of, lay hands on, grab, snatch, take by force, rape," has not quite the same sense. Perhaps a shortened formation from a verb akin to Middle English acombren "obstructing progress," from Old French encombrer, from combre "obstruction, barrier," from Vulgar Latin *comboros "that which is carried together," perhaps from a Gaulish word.

The likely roots are PIE *kom (see com-) + *bher- (1) "to bear" (see infer). Weakened sense of "to hamper, to obstruct or weigh down" is late 14c. Related: Cumbered; cumbering.

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