trying to prevent somebody/something from making progress 阻挠;妨碍;阻止 Of course she can do it. She's just being deliberately obstructive. 这事她当然能做。她只是在刻意阻挠罢了。 He proved to be an obstinate and obstructive defendant. 事实证明,他是一个顽固且阻挠的被告。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- positively
- quite
- deliberately
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medical )医学 connected with a passage, tube, etc. in your body that has become blocked 梗阻的;阻塞的;栓塞的 obstructive lung disease 肺阻塞疾病
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from obstruct + -ive.