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

• Not fetters should not be bound.
  不要羁绊，不要束缚。
• He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.
  他渴望逃脱那不幸婚姻的束缚。
• Affection is a game, a decision is you my fetters.
  感情是场博弈，决策就是你我的羁绊。
• 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。
• 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。
• And I was in fetters, at the mercy of the mob.
  我身着枷锁，任暴徒摆布。
• 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。
• They were bound up in fetters of conventionalism.
  他们被因袭主义的枷锁所束缚。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。
• To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。