thwart

英 [θwɔːt]

美 [θwɔːrt]

v.  阻止; 阻挠; 对…构成阻力

过去分词：thwarted　过去式：thwarted　现在分词：thwarting　第三人称单数：thwarts　

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牛津词典

verb

• 阻止；阻挠；对…构成阻力
  to prevent sb from doing what they want to do
  1. to thwart sb's plans
     阻挠某人的计划
  2. She was thwarted in her attempt to take control of the party.
     她控制这个政党的企图受阻了。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使受挫;阻碍;阻挠
  If youthwartsomeone orthwarttheir plans, you prevent them from doing or getting what they want.
  1. The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators...
     会计事务所故意毁坏文件，阻挠政府调查工作。
  2. Her ambition to become an artist was thwarted by failing eyesight.
     她想成为艺术家的梦想由于视力衰减而破灭了。

英英释义

noun

• a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat
  Synonym:cross thwart

verb

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
  1. What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
  2. foil your opponent
  Synonym:queerspoilscotchfoilcrossfrustratebafflebilk

双语例句

• Eg. we should care for them and not thwart their enthusiasm.
  我们应该关心和爱护他们，而不是阻碍他么的积极性。
• Our course must thwart those designs.
  我们的方针是必须挫败他们这种企图。
• The administration accepted the principle that fiscal policy should promote recovery, not thwart it.
  政府接受了以下原则：即财政政策应该推动、而非阻碍经济复苏。
• The benefits are the costs that the enemy's attack, the attack that going to war now will thwart, will impose on the nation.
  袭击将会影响和毁灭国家，所以将导致战争，敌人这种袭击的成本正是收益。
• He sat down and, clinging to the thwart, began to sob quietly.
  他坐下去，抓住了座板，开始低声哭泣。
• Her ambition to become an artist was thwarted by failing eyesight.
  她想成为艺术家的梦想由于视力衰减而破灭了。
• Each level tries to thwart different types of attacks and also provides more barriers to attackers.
  每个级别防范不同的攻击类型，并提供对攻击者更有效的屏障。
• To thwart this most heinous threat to your world.
  来阻止对你们星球的邪恶威胁。
• Unlike them, we had it in our unaided power to match Soviet arms and to thwart Soviet adventures.
  我们与他们不同，我们能够不靠别人援助而独力抗衡苏联的军事力量和阻挡苏联的冒险。
• The ongoing work on vasopressin is not the only front researchers and clinicians are investigating to thwart shock.
  进行中的增压素研究，并不是想克服休克的研究人员与临床人员的唯一前线研究。