obstruct
verb🔊/əbˈstrʌkt/
🔊/əbˈstrʌkt/
(formal)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they obstruct | 🔊/əbˈstrʌkt/ 🔊/əbˈstrʌkt/ |
| he / she / it obstructs | 🔊/əbˈstrʌkts/ 🔊/əbˈstrʌkts/ |
| past simple obstructed | 🔊/əbˈstrʌktɪd/ 🔊/əbˈstrʌktɪd/ |
| past participle obstructed | 🔊/əbˈstrʌktɪd/ 🔊/əbˈstrʌktɪd/ |
| -ing form obstructing | 🔊/əbˈstrʌktɪŋ/ 🔊/əbˈstrʌktɪŋ/ |
- obstruct something
to block a road, an entrance, a passage, etc. so that somebody/something cannot get through, see past, etc. 阻挡；阻塞；遮断 You can't park here, you're obstructing my driveway. 你不能在这里停车，你挡住了我家的车道。 🔊🔊 First check that the accident victim doesn't have an obstructed airway. 首先要确保事故受伤者的气道通畅。 🔊🔊 The pillar obstructed our view of the stage. 柱子挡着，我们看不见舞台。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- partially
- completely
- deliberately
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- in
- obstruct somebody/something
to prevent somebody/something from doing something or making progress, especially when this is done deliberately （故意）妨碍，阻挠，阻碍 They were charged with obstructing the police in the course of their duty. 他们被指控妨碍警察执行公务。 🔊🔊 He accused terrorists of attempting to obstruct the peace process. 他谴责恐怖分子企图阻碍和平进程。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- partially
- completely
- deliberately
- …
- in
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin obstruct- ‘blocked up’, from the verb obstruere, from ob- ‘against’ + struere ‘build, pile up’.
Idioms
obstruct justice (North American English)
(British English pervert the course of justice)
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law 法律 to tell a lie or to do something in order to prevent the police, etc. from finding out the truth about a crime 妨碍司法（如作伪证等）