shackled

英 [ˈʃækld]

美 [ˈʃækld]

v.  给(某人)戴镣铐; 束缚; 阻挠; 成为…的羁绊
shackle的过去分词和过去式

COCA.42844

柯林斯词典

• VERB 束缚;阻挠;成为…的羁绊
  If youare shackled bysomething, it prevents you from doing what you want to do.
  1. The trade unions are shackled by the law.
     工会受法律的制约。
  2. ...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job.
     发现自己被高压工作所束缚的人们
• N-PLURAL 束缚;羁绊;枷锁
  If you throw off theshackles ofsomething, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do.
  1. ...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.
     决定摆脱过去殖民束缚的国家
• N-PLURAL 镣铐;手铐;脚镣
  Shacklesare two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping.
  1. He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands.
     他打开了比利的手铐。
• VERB 给…上镣铐
  Toshacklesomeone means to put shackles on them.
  1. ...the chains that were shackling his legs...
     铐着他双腿的链子
  2. She was shackled to a wall.
     她被铐在一面墙上。

英英释义

adj

• bound by chains fastened around the ankles
  Synonym:fettered

双语例句

• The prisoners were kept shackled during the trial.
  审判期间，犯人戴着镣铐。
• On the last day that I was shackled and chained, the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico apologized to me.
  戴镣铐的最后一天，美国新墨西哥州法院的首席法官向我道歉了。
• His ankle, tattooed with a marijuana leaf, was shackled to his bed to keep him from running away to feed his habit.
  他那纹了大麻叶纹身的脚踝被拷在了床上，这是为了防止他跑出去吸毒。
• If one is bound, then all of us are shackled;
  一个人不自由，我们都戴着手铐；
• She was shackled to a wall.
  她被铐在一面墙上。
• By the time the sun came up on Sunday, Mr. Harris-Moore was shackled and wearing a bulletproof vest as he was escorted to jail.
  上周日太阳升起之时，带着镣铐，身穿防弹衣的哈里斯摩尔被押送到监狱。
• The trade unions are shackled by the law.
  工会受法律的制约。
• Family doctors are anxious to provide a proper service for their patients, but they can't give them the attention they need if they've shackled with paperwork.
  家庭医生都迫切希望为病人提供适当的服务，但他们若为日常抄抄写写的工作所束缚，便不能给病人必需的关心。
• The best stories of this sort usually involve the innocent foreigner being shackled or bundled off to the state penitentiary.
  大多数这类故事通常会涉及无辜的外国人被带上手铐或被匆匆送到国家监狱。
• These countries are already shackled by the double burden of infectious and chronic diseases.
  这些国家已经承担了传染病和慢性病的双重负担。