VERB 抑制;约束 If something inhibits an event or process, it prevents it or slows it down.
Wine or sugary drinks inhibit digestion...
葡萄酒或含糖饮料抑制消化。
The high cost of borrowing is inhibiting investment by industry in new equipment.
借款的高成本抑制了企业对新设备的投资。
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VERB 禁止;阻止 To inhibit someone from doing something means to prevent them from doing it, although they want to do it or should be able to do it.
It could inhibit the poor from getting the medical care they need...
那会使穷人得不到他们所需要的医疗保健。
Officers will be inhibited from doing their duty.
官员们将无法履行职责。
