blockading

基本解釋

After years of harassing British colonies, Blackbeard (Edward Teach) achieves career highlight: blockading city of Charleston, South Carolina, for one week.
在常年襲擾英國殖民地之后，“黑胡子”愛德華 · 迪奇達(dá)到了他生涯中的頂點(diǎn)，連續(xù)一個(gè)禮拜封鎖了查爾斯頓城和南卡羅萊納城
Fighting intensified in northern Yemen, with Saudi forces blockading the northern coast and helping their Yemeni counterparts to attack rebels loyal to the Houthi clan. See article
也門北部的斗爭激化，沙特部隊(duì)封鎖了北部海岸，幫助也門政府打擊忠于胡塞集團(tuán)的反叛分子。
Now the former president’s supporters are blockading the halls of parliament 24 hours a day, preventing deputies from getting into the chamber and any laws from being passed (see picture).
如今前總統(tǒng)的支持者們一天24小時(shí)封鎖了國會(huì)各會(huì)堂，阻止議員們進(jìn)入會(huì)議室并通過各項(xiàng)法案（見圖片）。

South African police reported that striking miners are blockading roads leading to Amplats mine shafts.
FORBES: Platinum Prices Soar To Five-Month High As South African Labor Issues Escalate
Radical movements hostile to private investment in Bolivia's oil-and-gas sector have been blockading roads for weeks.
ECONOMIST: Bolivia
On a calm and sunny Sunday morning, it was destroyed by Admiral William Sampson's blockading force.
ECONOMIST: THE WAR OF 1898

A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
If a group of people blockade a place, they stop goods or people from reaching that place. If they blockade a road or a port, they stop people from using that road or port.