Instead of protecting speech and encouraging diversity and innovative thinking, the tenure system often stifles(压制)them: younger professors must win the approval of established colleagues for tenure, encouraging like-mindedness and sometimes inhibiting the free flow of ideas.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
If you say no, even politely, you risk inhibiting further ideas, not just from that reporter, but from others who heard that you turned down the idea.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
VERB
抑制;约束
If something inhibits an event or process, it prevents it or slows it down.