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

• In the agriculture civilization, it took the mask of the religious spirit and the fetter of the ignorant doctrines;
  在农业文明时期，它带着宗教精神的面具和蒙昧主义的枷锁；
• Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
  我主，让此恩典维系流荡的心归你前。
• Deep sand, beautiful fetter.
  幽沙，唯美的羁绊。
• In this article the author uses empirical data in analyzing the historical conditions on which modem economic globalization depends, and compares its basic features with that of the fetter economic globalization, and studies its general trends in the future.
  摘要本文通过比较充分的实证数据分析了现代经济全球化发生的历史条件，描述了它的基本特征，研究了它未来的发展趋势。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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？
• 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。
• 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。