blockading

基本解释

After years of harassing British colonies, Blackbeard (Edward Teach) achieves career highlight: blockading city of Charleston, South Carolina, for one week.
在常年袭扰英国殖民地之后，“黑胡子”爱德华 · 迪奇达到了他生涯中的顶点，连续一个礼拜封锁了查尔斯顿城和南卡罗莱纳城
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
也门北部的斗争激化，沙特部队封锁了北部海岸，帮助也门政府打击忠于胡塞集团的反叛分子。
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).
如今前总统的支持者们一天24小时封锁了国会各会堂，阻止议员们进入会议室并通过各项法案（见图片）。

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.