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

• This is a rusty to life from the unhealthy environment and a fetter to people's living customs.
  这就是不良环境对人的一种腐蚀，对人的生活习惯的一种羁绊。
• Deep sand, beautiful fetter.
  幽沙，唯美的羁绊。
• 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？
• Huang is something else: a person at war with all the constraints that would fetter him to anything less than an identity capacious enough to contain all his contradictions and ambivalence.
  而黄则截然不同：他与所有那些束缚羁绊他的因素斗争，他的身份一定要足够广阔善变，能够容纳下他所有的矛盾和模棱两可的性格。
• The forces that fetter our souls.
  束缚着我们灵魂的力量。
• This time literature all tries hard in the ideological content and the artistic form to get rid of traditional the fetter, has the vanguard color.
  这个时期的文学在思想内容和艺术形式上都力图摆脱传统的束缚，具有前卫色彩。
• So-called trust, is to give each other the fetter, find a leave your excuse.
  所谓信任，就是给对方的束缚，找个离开你的借口。
• 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。
• Everybody has happiness which the right pursues itself to want and satisfy, anybody anything has not been possible to fetter.
  人人都有权利追求自己想要的幸福和满足，没有任何人任何事情可以束缚。
• 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。