gum up

基本解釋

Antibodies are proteins that stick onto a pathogen and gum up its works.
從化學成分上來講，抗體屬于一種蛋白質(zhì)，它通過與病毒結(jié)合以阻斷病毒的感染能力。
As much as we want happy people in our lives, it often happens that difficult people appear in our circle to gum up the works.
盡管我們希望生活中都是這種讓人愉快的人，但常有難與之相處的人出現(xiàn)在我們的左右，讓生活了無生趣。事實上，有些自己的家人就是這種人。
As credit lines gum up and outsiders plead for action, it is not just the euro that is at risk, but the future of the European Union and the health of the world economy.
當信用額度出現(xiàn)問題，外部要求有所行動，并不是只有歐元存在危險，歐盟的未來和世界經(jīng)濟的健康發(fā)展也存在著危險。

The excess insulin triggers the liver to produce an overabundance of triglycerides, which gum up already-narrow arteries.
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Whereas Europe employs regulations to gum up the gears of commerce, we use a tort bar.
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Republicans brought motions to adjourn, motions to table other motions, anything to gum up the work.
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