fetters

英 [ˈfetəz]

美 [ˈfetərz]

v.  束缚; 限制，抑制(某人的自由); 给(囚犯)上脚镣
n.  束缚; 桎梏; 羁绊; 脚镣
fetter的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 束缚;羁绊
  If you say that youare fetteredby something, you dislike it because it prevents you from behaving or moving in a free and natural way.
  1. ...a private trust which would not be fettered by bureaucracy...
     不受官僚繁文缛节限制的私人信托
  2. The black mud fettered her movements.
     黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
• N-PLURAL (规则、传统、责任的)束缚，约束，桎梏
  You can usefettersto refer to things such as rules, traditions, or responsibilities that you dislike because they prevent you from behaving in the way you want.
  1. ...the fetters of social convention.
     社会习俗的约束
• N-COUNT (尤指旧时的)脚镣
  Especially in former times,fetterswere chains for a prisoner's feet.
  1. He saw a boy in fetters in the dungeons.
     他在地牢里看见一个戴着脚镣的男孩。

双语例句

• They were, however, already beginning to break the fetters of the gentile constitution.
  不过他们已经开始粉碎氏族制度的枷锁了。
• Education aims at removing fetters from the mind.
  教育的目的在于解除思想的枷锁。
• The editorial referred to segregation and the heavy invisible fetters placed on all citizens.
  社论提到隔离和无形而又沉重的枷锁，困住无数疲于奔命的人们。
• Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.
  纪律为愚昧人，就如脚镣，和右手上的手铐。
• Not fetters should not be bound.
  不要羁绊，不要束缚。
• To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。
• MY fetters, you made music in my heart. I played with you all day long and made you my ornament.
  我的镣铐，你在我的心底谱写乐曲；我终日拨弄你，使你成了我增加光彩的装饰物。
• Only death will break the fetters of this carefully devised entrapment.
  只有到死，才能打破这一精心策划束缚。
• Instead he spread his hands as far as the fetters would allow.
  但是相反他尽镣铐所能摊开他的手。
• Gold, jewelry, works of art, enviable household furniture, are positive fetters.
  金银，首饰，工艺品，令人羡慕的家俱都是不可否认的镣铐。