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.- ...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 - The black mud fettered her movements.
黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
- ...a private trust which would not be fettered by bureaucracy...
- 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.- ...the fetters of social convention.
社会习俗的约束
- ...the fetters of social convention.
- N-COUNT (尤指旧时的)脚镣
Especially in former times,fetterswere chains for a prisoner's feet.- 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。
- He saw a boy in fetters in the dungeons.
双语例句
- Keynes thought that capitalism needed to be in fetters; Friedman thought it would behave if left alone.
凯恩斯认为,需要对资本主义加以束缚;而弗里德曼则认为,若放开手脚,资本主义将呈现恰当行为。 - 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。 - And I was in fetters, at the mercy of the mob.
我身着枷锁,任暴徒摆布。 - They became so many fetters.
它变成了束缚生产的桎梏。 - 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。 - Education aims at removing fetters from the mind.
教育的目的在于解除思想的枷锁。 - To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
逮捕给某人戴上镣铐;把某人逮捕入狱。 - Not fetters should not be bound.
不要羁绊,不要束缚。 - 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。 - The other side of benevolence and righteousness is the handcuff and fetters, devised to trap people in guilt.
仁义的另一层意义,其实就是脚镣手铐,专门陷人于不义以及罪恶之中。