thwarts

英 [θwɔːts]

美 [θwɔːrts]

v.  阻止; 阻挠; 对…构成阻力
thwart的第三人称单数

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。

双语例句

• This is a silent humanitarian crisis that thwarts progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs).
  这是一个无声的人道主义危机，它阻碍着实现千年发展目标（MDGs）方面的进展。
• An opposite reaction that thwarts death's intent.
  会成为阻止死神计划的反作用力。
• He laid himself down under the thwarts and waited, panting.
  躺在坐板下面，气喘吁吁地等着开船。
• Such initiates are expelled from the new consensus as this thwarts the human ascension movement by depleting those who are evolving.
  这样的提升者从新一致中被排除，因为这耗竭了正进化的人们的能量从而阻碍了人类提升运动。
• Handled securely, it also thwarts potential attackers who may attempt to intercept and tamper with the upgrade.
  这种机制不仅具有安全的处理方式，还可阻止试图截获并篡改升级的潜在攻击者。
• It thwarts the negotiation of Air Waybill, the development of international trade as well as international payment.
  这妨碍了航空货运单的转让、国际贸易的发展、及国际结算的顺利开展。
• Microsoft took aim at arch rival Google, claiming in its first-ever complaint to antitrust regulators that Google systematically thwarts Internet search competition, Reuters reported.
  据路透社报道，微软瞄准了劲敌谷歌，首次向反垄断调节机构控告谷歌系统性阻碍互联网搜索竞争。
• Scientists had already discovered that XIAP thwarts the apoptotic impulse by putting the brakes on key enzymes called caspases.
  科学家已经揭示了XIAP阻碍凋亡的信号是通过阻止称为Caspases关键酶。
• The breaking of the spirit thwarts the whole being.
  打破精神全被搁浅。
• Most of iran's vast gas reserves remain untapped as its row with the West over tehran's nuclear ambitions thwarts investment progress.
  由于伊朗在其野心勃勃的核计划问题上与西方发生争吵，阻碍了投资进程，伊朗庞大的天然气储备大部分尚未开发。