詞彙精選：hamper的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
（有蓋的）大籃子，帶蓋食品籃 [C]
例句：
There are some apples in the picnic hamper.
在野餐用的大籃子裏有許多蘋果。
例句：
A nice bottle of vin rouge and a simple picnic hamper will enhance your Orient-Express fantasy.
一瓶上好法國紅葡萄酒和一份簡單的野餐食盒，將會提升你東方快車之旅的樂趣。
【美】洗衣籃 [C]
例句：
Her husband threw his dirty clothes in the hamper.
丈夫把髒衣服仍進髒衣筐。
例句：
This is a laundry hamper for dirty clothes.
這是個盛放髒衣服的洗衣籃。
障礙物；束縛
例句：
It's a hamper for me.
這對我是個障礙。
v.
妨礙，束縛，限制 [T]
例句：
Our progress was hampered by the bad weather.
我們前進時受到了惡劣天氣的阻礙。
例句：
The heavy rain hampers the flow of traffic.
大雨阻礙了交通運行。
二、詞義辨析：
block,bar,hinder,obstruct,prevent,hamper
這些動詞均含有“阻止、阻塞”之意。block語氣強烈，指有效堵住了通道，使人或物無法通過。bar含義與block很接近，指阻塞通道或禁止出入，但有對暗示不用障礙物的阻止或禁止。hinder語氣較輕，多指阻礙、拖延人或事，強調使進展速度緩慢下來。obstruct正式用詞，語氣強，多指以干擾或設置障礙的方式阻礙交通，使不能自由暢通。prevent含義廣泛，指採取預防措施或設置障礙去阻止某人或某事。hamper側重因受到約束或阻礙而造成的行動困難。
三、參考例句：
An obsolete ideology can hamper an economy .
過時的意識形態會束縛經濟。
It's a hamper for me.
這對我是個障礙。
You would hamper yourself with that fellow.
你會受到那個傢伙的牽連。
Private companies have disadvantages that will hamper their growth.
私營企業有阻礙其自身發展的弊端。
Provincial barriers to trade hamper the efficient allocation of resources.
各省的貿易壁壘阻礙了資源的有效分配。
This is a laundry hamper for dirty clothes.
這是個盛放髒衣服的洗衣籃。
It caused fears that restricted credit will hamper recovery,
有人擔心限制貸款將阻礙經濟復甦。
There are some apples in a picnic hamper.
在野餐用的大籃子裏有許多蘋果。
Many modernists think that rhyme and metre hamper the poet's free expression.
很多現代派詩人認爲韻律妨礙了詩人的自由發揮。
We hoped in this way to hamper its movements and reduce its speed.
我們希望那樣會阻滯它的行動，降低它的速度。
