Barrier

(noun.) a structure or object that impedes free movement.

(noun.) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective; 'intolerance is a barrier to understanding'.

(noun.) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access.

编辑:耶鲁

• Where could a key be a safeguard, or a padlock a barrier? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I cried as we approached the arena's barrier wall. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Resolute, however, to rejoin him, I penetrated the living barrier, creeping under where I could not get between or over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• At any moment, however, the barrier might fall, and Justinian lost no time in rendering the guns innocuous, if he were forced to retreat up the gorge. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I wish to pull down the barrier, so that when the pirates come up to assault, they will find no difficulty in passing up the gorge. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Presently carriages with travellers began to leave the town, galloping away by the Ghent barrier. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Defarge got upon the box, and gave the word To the Barrier! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• She was in a front row, by the side of a man whom he had never seen since his arrival at the Barrier, but whom he directly remembered as Defarge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• My old pain has given me a power that has brought us through the barrier, and gained us news of Charles there, and brought us here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But the sense of the waning hour made him desperate: he could not bear the thought that a barrier of words should drop between them again. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• This strip between the ice barrier and the mountains is considered neutral ground. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• An errand of generosity brought him here unknown to us; he was stopped at the barrier, and sent to prison. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The position had been such that nothing more could be said without, in the first place, breaking down a barrier; and that was not to be done. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• How could he dream of her defying the barrier that her husband had placed between them? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The barriers between Europe and Asia set up by the religious feud of Christianity and Islam were lowered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The barriers between Africa, Asia, and Europe were lowered or bridged by that time, but mixing had not gone far. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But, on the other hand, man is usually a wandering and enterprising animal, for whom there exist few insurmountable barriers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I was girded, walled in, vaulted over, by seven-fold barriers of loneliness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was cut off from the civilizations to the west and to the east by vast mountain barriers and desert regions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The latter, at the same time would travel further and further southward, unless they were stopped by barriers, in which case they would perish. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The assailants have won the barriers, have they not? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• These barriers mean absence of fluent and free intercourse. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Dorothea refrained from saying what was in her mind--how well she knew that there might be invisible barriers to speech between husband and wife. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• All eyes were turned to see the new champion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barriers opened than he paced into the lists. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The barriers were too many and too high for such a leap. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Tars Tarkas rode ahead and, leaning down to the latch, threw the barriers open, while I held the loose thoats from breaking back to the herd. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

校对:米里亚姆