militate

动词 militate:

1. have force or influence; bring about an effect or change

1. Facts militate against this opinion.
   事实不能说明这个论点。
2. Many factors militated against the success of our plan.
   有很多因素妨碍了我们实现计画。

mil.i.tate

v.intr.（不及物动词）
mil.i.tat.ed,mil.i.tat.ing,mil.i.tates
To have force or influence; bring about an effect or a change:
有影响，对…有份量：有作用或影响的；使产生作用或变化的：
例句：
.All these factors militated to a different targeting priority.(Tom Clancy).The chaste banality of his prose . . . militates against the stories` becoming literature.(Anthony Burgess)
.所有这些因素导致了一个不同的重点.(汤姆·克兰西).他行文中那种平铺直叙，故作高雅的陈词滥调…妨碍了这些小说成为真正的文学作品.(安东尼·伯吉斯)

来源：
Latin molit3re molit3t- [to serve as a soldier]
拉丁语 molit3re molit3t- [服兵役，成为士兵]
from moles molit- [soldier]
源自 moles molit- [战士]