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

• He thought of himself as too shackled by domestic responsibilities.
  他觉得自己太为家庭责任所拖累。
• 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。
• I dont think farming in the same place for six generations is a dead weight that keeps you shackled, doing the identical thing year in and year out.
  我不认为六代人在同一地方过着耕种的生活，年复一年地干着同样的活是一种让人喘不过气来的负担。
• The trade unions are shackled by the law.
  工会受法律的制约。
• The government is shackled by its own debts.
  政府被其债务所束缚。
• The impact: a shackled global economy growing at a much slower pace than in previous decades.
  其结果是：全球经济束手束脚，其增长速度要比过去几十年慢得多。
• 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。
• People were locked into a serfdom of ideas and politics that shackled their national life.
  那里的人们在思想和政治领域受到奴役，国民生活被戴上了锁链。
• If one is bound, then all of us are shackled;
  一个人不自由，我们都戴着手铐；
• The hostage had been shackled to a radiator.
  当时人质被铐在暖气片上。