1. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. 这是些没多大价值的人，拖累这个新发现的国家的人。
2. Shanghai is a mega city with very limited resources and energies, and it is evitable to confront many cumbering factors toward the ecotype city. 上海是一个资源、能源都十分匮乏的特大型城市，在走生态型城市建设的道路上必然会遇到各种阻碍因素。
3. During VLSI test, the error caused by user's aid-hardware is always the key problem cumbering the precision and reliability of test and measurement. 在VLSI测试中，由于用户引入辅助硬件产生的误差问题，一直是阻碍测试精度和可靠性的关键问题。
4. A novelist, we reflect, is bound to build up his structure with much very perishable material which begins by lending it reality and ends by cumbering it with rubbish. 我们设想，一位小说家必定会使用许多很不经久耐用的材料，来建立他的小说结构，这些材料起初给它以现实感，最后却使它被没用的废料所拖累。
