fettered

英 [ˈfetəd]

美 [ˈfetərd]

v.  束缚; 限制，抑制(某人的自由); 给(囚犯)上脚镣
fetter的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：fettered　

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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

adj

• bound by chains fastened around the ankles
  Synonym:shackled

双语例句

• And the patriarchal clan made the Nuo Play be handed down from ancient times, at the same time, it limited and fettered the development of the Nuo Play and made it remain in the primitive form.
  同时宗族势力又限制并束缚了贵池傩戏的发展，使之一直保持古朴的原初形态；
• "Do you feel fettered by your dog?" asked Lydia.
  “你觉得小狗拖累你吗？”利迪娅问。
• Though man is fettered by time and space, the soul can take off, striving for "time over time".
  人类逃不出时间和空间的限制，但是心灵可以放飞，去寻找“时间之外的时间”。
• I hate being fettered by petty rules and regulations.
  我讨厌受清规戒律的束缚。
• The ugly duck changed into a swan because of his going out of the place which fettered him.
  丑小鸭变成了白天鹅，因为它走出了篱笆的限制。
• We are fettered by petty bureaucracy.
  我们受到小官僚的束缚。
• In the manifesto "intellectuals" means all intellectuals who are persecuted and fettered.
  在宣言上所说的“学”，即是指一切受迫害、受限制的知识分子。
• Firenze had little patience for what he called "fortunetelling," suggesting that to try to understand divination in these terms was being" blinkered and fettered by the limitations "of being human.
  费伦泽他称为“算命”的东西毫无耐心，他提出试着相信那一类的占卜是“被蒙住了双眼，也为人类的缺陷所束缚”。
• Hundreds of millions of Chinese women are no longer the oppressed and fettered group of the past, but masters of the country, the society and their own destiny.
  亿万中国妇女从过去倍受压抑和桎梏的群体变成了国家、社会和自己命运的主人。
• Just think, the reason why we are not happy from dawn till dusk is being fettered by invisible ropes.
  想一想，从早晨到晚上，我们之所以不快乐，是因为我们被无形的绳索所束缚住了。