gum up
US /ɡʌm ʌp/
・UK /ɡʌm ʌp/
B2 中高級
phr.v.使堵塞
The machine gummed up because of dirt and dust.
影片字幕
哈囉！誰是傳奇？看昔日男神 howard bogart 如何晉身影史不朽！ (How Humphrey Bogart Became A Legend)
- Now the only chance I've got of catching them and tying them up and bringing them in is by staying as far away as possible from you and the police because you're the only gum up the works.
這是 Bogart 真正經典角色的開端。
- The only chance I've got of catching them and tying them up and bringing them in is by staying as far away as possible from you and the police, because you'd only gum up the works.
我唯一能抓住他們、綁起來並把他們帶進來的機會，就是離你們和警察越遠越好，因為你們只會把事情搞砸。
最高法院支持「出生即公民權」的判決大解析！ (Examining the Supreme Court Decision to Support Birthright Citizenship)
- I think they will try to say, "No, we're not going to process those applications," or, "We will refuse them." And I think they will they will try to do things like that to try to gum up the work, basically saying, "We're not going we're going to make it as hard as possible to reward this situation of someone being born here and being given all of the categories of citizenship." But at the end, citizenship is citizenship, and
我認為他們會說：「不行，我們不會處理這些申請」，或者「我們會拒絕它們」。我認為他們會試圖這樣做，來阻礙這個過程，基本上就是說：「我們不會，我們會盡可能讓情況變得困難，來獎勵在這裡出生並獲得所有公民權類別的這種情況。」但最終，公民權就是公民權，
