fetter

英 [ˈfetə(r)]

美 [ˈfetər]

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

复数：fetters　过去分词：fettered　现在分词：fettering　第三人称单数：fetters　过去式：fettered　

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BNC.23633 / COCA.33738

牛津词典

verb

• 束缚；限制，抑制（某人的自由）
  to restrict sb's freedom to do what they want
• 给（囚犯）上脚镣
  to put chains around a prisoner's feet

noun

• 束缚；桎梏；羁绊
  something that stops sb from doing what they want
  1. They were at last freed from the fetters of ignorance.
     他们终于从愚昧无知的束缚中解脱出来。
• 脚镣
  chains that are put around a prisoner's feet

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。

英英释义

noun

• a shackle for the ankles or feet
  Synonym:hobble

verb

• restrain with fetters
  Synonym:shackle

双语例句

• Everybody has happiness which the right pursues itself to want and satisfy, anybody anything has not been possible to fetter.
  人人都有权利追求自己想要的幸福和满足，没有任何人任何事情可以束缚。
• This time literature all tries hard in the ideological content and the artistic form to get rid of traditional the fetter, has the vanguard color.
  这个时期的文学在思想内容和艺术形式上都力图摆脱传统的束缚，具有前卫色彩。
• They got rid of the fetter& but soon afterwards of their new landed property also.
  这种桎梏他们是摆脱了，但是不久他们也失去了新的土地所有权。
• The forces that fetter our souls.
  束缚着我们灵魂的力量。
• So-called trust, is to give each other the fetter, find a leave your excuse.
  所谓信任，就是给对方的束缚，找个离开你的借口。
• And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
  并当污秽没办法更多时，谦虚不就是一副脚镣以及一个心灵的腐败？
• Also causes the artistic form to break through traditional the fetter, presented more evolutions and the innovation.
  也使得艺术形式打破传统的束厄狭隘，呈现了更多的演变及立异。
• In the modernization the economic society vicissitude slow reason is because small land system's fetter.
  现代化中经济社会变迁缓慢的原因是由于受小土地制度的束缚。
• A clog or fetter on the equity of redemption is void.
  阻碍和束缚衡平法上的赎回板均是无效的。
• 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。