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

• But what are shackled me, you are in love?
  但是什么束缚了我，是你的爱吗？
• 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 government is shackled by its own debts.
  政府被其债务所束缚。
• 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。
• Last night, he beat me and shackled me, leaving me cold and starving the entire night. I have no idea where he's taking me now.
  你不知道前面走的那个，就是叫「晚上」的东西，他很恐怖啊，昨天我被他打，然后被绑了整个晚上又饿又冷，现在不晓得要带我到哪里去。
• 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。
• 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。
• The west-made order which has long shackled so much of our mind and actions by its so-called unitary world rules or mainstream discourse is, by no means, the sole international order.
  西方的体系绝不是唯一的国际体系，这个体系制造出笼的所谓世界统一的规则或主流的话语，禁锢了我们太多的思想和行动。
• You cannot compete if there are rules that tie your hands when your competitors in the US or Europe or Asia are not shackled in the same way.
  如果规定绑住了你的手脚，而你在美国、欧洲或亚洲的竞争者却没有受到同样的束缚，那你就不可能竞争。
• Industrialists can not afford to be shackled by the ideology of politicians.
  工业家可不能被政客的意识形态束缚住。