If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
例句
Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore...潜水员向海岸走去时，铅坠和氧气罐使他们步履维艰。It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.它现在仍旧被20世纪80年代就深受其累的债务压得喘不过气。
VERB
阻塞;堵塞;塞满
If a place is encumbered with things, it contains so many of them that it is difficult to move freely there.
例句
The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts.狭窄的码头被数百辆手推车堵得水泄不通。