fetter

英 [ˈfetə(r)]

美 [ˈfetər]

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

复数：fetters　过去分词：fettered　现在分词：fettering　第三人称单数：fetters　过去式：fettered　

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BNC.23633 / COCA.33738

牛津词典

verb

• 束缚；限制，抑制（某人的自由）
  to restrict sb's freedom to do what they want
• 给（囚犯）上脚镣
  to put chains around a prisoner's feet

noun

• 束缚；桎梏；羁绊
  something that stops sb from doing what they want
  1. They were at last freed from the fetters of ignorance.
     他们终于从愚昧无知的束缚中解脱出来。
• 脚镣
  chains that are put around a prisoner's feet

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。

英英释义

noun

• a shackle for the ankles or feet
  Synonym:hobble

verb

• restrain with fetters
  Synonym:shackle

双语例句

• In the modernization the economic society vicissitude slow reason is because small land system's fetter.
  现代化中经济社会变迁缓慢的原因是由于受小土地制度的束缚。
• And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
  因而，当你的自由摆脱了束缚，也就成为更大的自由之枷锁。
• Love should not be a fetter, so I chose to let you go.
  爱不能成为羁绊，所以要选择放手。
• In the agriculture civilization, it took the mask of the religious spirit and the fetter of the ignorant doctrines;
  在农业文明时期，它带着宗教精神的面具和蒙昧主义的枷锁；
• This does not mean that we wish to fetter the trade union movement.
  这并不意味着我们想限制工会运动。
• And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
  并当污秽没办法更多时，谦虚不就是一副脚镣以及一个心灵的腐败？
• The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it.
  资本的垄断成了与这种垄断一起并在这种垄断之下繁盛起来的生产方式的桎梏。
• Also causes the artistic form to break through traditional the fetter, presented more evolutions and the innovation.
  也使得艺术形式打破传统的束厄狭隘，呈现了更多的演变及立异。
• Foreword: Give the rein to your imagination, break the fetter from the traditions, then you can have a quite different life.
  引言：发挥你的想象力，突破传统的困扰，它能给你带来一个不一样的人生。
• Results of this analysis is not to call their own shortcomings to fetter themselves and their families.
  分析的结果是不要叫自己的弊端来束缚自己及家人。