The study suggests that the Obama administration work with Middle Eastern allies to repeal laws that restrict citizen freedoms, hinder political activities or suppress freedom of expression and assembly.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

In fact, it exists, amazingly, in order to hinder understanding in the kinds of texts that we're inclined to call "poetic."

事实上，它的存在，阻碍我们理解所有带有,诗性的文本“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think it might actually be the more obvious meaning, which is "to hinder" or "to preclude."

我认为那可能是更容易理解的意思，“阻碍“或“妨碍“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So just as no-smoking zones have expanded over the years, she suggests that city planners, for example,should consider whether their decisions might promote or hinder the development of personal relationships.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

So, they're sitting down and they're seeing a movie where one character's going to help a ball achieve a goal, and another character's going to hinder the ball.

所以婴儿们坐着看影片,影片讲述一个人极力进球,而另一个人要极力阻挠

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Successfully investigating this episode could only make it stronger,but we shouldn't pass this resolution now which could actually hinder the wheels of justice before they have ever begun to turn."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

All tended to hinder technological innovation in those societies.

但都阻碍了 社会技术革新的趋势

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But he says too much help will hinder productivity.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

Whether it has done anything to help or hinder the right wing BNP party won't be clear until the next round of British public opinion polls or until Britain's next country-wide election, expected in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23