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 · 迪奇達到了他生涯中的頂點，連續(xù)一個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，沙特部隊封鎖了北部海岸，幫助也門政府打擊忠于胡塞集團的反叛分子。
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小時封鎖了國會各會堂，阻止議員們進入會議室并通過各項法案（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.