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

• Foreword: Give the rein to your imagination, break the fetter from the traditions, then you can have a quite different life.
  引言：发挥你的想象力，突破传统的困扰，它能给你带来一个不一样的人生。
• 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。
• Deep sand, beautiful fetter.
  幽沙，唯美的羁绊。
• 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。
• This is a rusty to life from the unhealthy environment and a fetter to people's living customs.
  这就是不良环境对人的一种腐蚀，对人的生活习惯的一种羁绊。
• 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。
• To confine or restrain with or as if with manacles; fetter.
  用脚镣或手铐禁闭或限制起来。
• 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。
• And the post-modern stage& ugliness shook off the fetter of beauty and began to exist independently.
  后现代时期，挣脱艺术美的束缚，独立存在。
• As an ethical concept, the metaphysical concept of "fidelity" tries to fetter translation onto the two poles of "faithful" and "unfaithful", thus incurring a number of insolvable problems.
  作为一个伦理概念，形而上学的“忠实”观念试图将翻译束缚在“忠”与“不忠”的两个极端，从而引起了一系列无法解决的问题。