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

• Education aims at removing fetters from the mind.
  教育的目的在于解除思想的枷锁。
• With his freedom from the fetters of life and nude-life appearance, he manifested his unique poetic style.
  其以不受羁绊的野性与对生命的裸呈体现了他的独特诗风。
• The existing theory and traditional habits can never become the fetters against Hun Sen's thoughts and actions.
  现成的理论和传统习惯都不能成为束缚洪森思想和行动的羁绊。
• To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。
• They will run wild freed from the fetters of control.
  他们一旦摆脱了束缚，就会变得无法无天。
• And I was in fetters, at the mercy of the mob.
  我身着枷锁，任暴徒摆布。
• They were bound up in fetters of conventionalism.
  他们被因袭主义的枷锁所束缚。
• He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.
  他渴望逃脱那不幸婚姻的束缚。
• Only death will break the fetters of this carefully devised entrapment.
  只有到死，才能打破这一精心策划束缚。
• Gold, jewelry, works of art, enviable household furniture, are positive fetters.
  金银，首饰，工艺品，令人羡慕的家俱都是不可否认的镣铐。