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stumbling block

绊脚石,拦路虎,障碍物,阻碍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhindrance

Examples

  • It’s these optical techniques that remain the bigger stumbling block.

  • This video sums up the basics around how Google views new pages and some of the stumbling blocks you might run into.

  • Climate finance has emerged as the biggest stumbling block to progress at the high-stakes United Nations climate talks in Scotland in November.

  • Online systems have become a huge stumbling block, especially for elderly people.

  • Privacy concerns have consistently been the internet’s stumbling block.

  • The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.

  • Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.

  • During his trek, Brinsley twice passed within a block of a police stationhouse and he almost certainly saw cops along the way.

  • Block 3F is slated for release in 2019, but who knows how much that will slip?

  • After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.

  • The Spanish troops did not care to venture past a block of buildings in which were the offices and stores of a British firm.

  • He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.

  • The upper block was left a little thicker, the junction or root of the neck necessitating this.

  • The lowing of cattle and the soft stumbling tread of many unshod feet told him that some one was approaching.

  • The long unbroken block had as many and as various stores as are generally spread over the entire area of a town.