gum up

基本解释

Antibodies are proteins that stick onto a pathogen and gum up its works.
从化学成分上来讲，抗体属于一种蛋白质，它通过与病毒结合以阻断病毒的感染能力。
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.
尽管我们希望生活中都是这种让人愉快的人，但常有难与之相处的人出现在我们的左右，让生活了无生趣。事实上，有些自己的家人就是这种人。
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.
当信用额度出现问题，外部要求有所行动，并不是只有欧元存在危险，欧盟的未来和世界经济的健康发展也存在着危险。

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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