Cumber

(v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.

(v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

编辑:史蒂夫

• I disgrace nobody and cumber nobody; that's something. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There was nothing else to be done with him; poor man, he cumbered the earth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It cumbers your lap, and I want it for my head; it engages your eyes, and I want them for a book. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

编辑:弗吉尼亚