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

• And I was in fetters, at the mercy of the mob.
  我身着枷锁，任暴徒摆布。
• 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。
• 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。
• World trade of political fetters is necessary.
  不为政治束缚之国际贸易是必需的。
• Deliver yourself from the fetters of lust and passion.
  把你自己从欲望与激情的束缚中释放出来。
• He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.
  他渴望逃脱那不幸婚姻的束缚。
• To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
  要用链子捆他们的君王，用铁镣锁他们的大臣。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。
• Where Reason makes kites of her laws and flies them, and Truth sets Fact free from its fetters.
  在那儿，理智以她的法律造为纸鸢而飞放，真理也使事实从桎梏中自由了。
• The editorial referred to segregation and the heavy invisible fetters placed on all citizens.
  社论提到隔离和无形而又沉重的枷锁，困住无数疲于奔命的人们。