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

• Only death will break the fetters of this carefully devised entrapment.
  只有到死，才能打破这一精心策划束缚。
• 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 put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。
• 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。
• Instead he spread his hands as far as the fetters would allow.
  但是相反他尽镣铐所能摊开他的手。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With his freedom from the fetters of life and nude-life appearance, he manifested his unique poetic style.
  其以不受羁绊的野性与对生命的裸呈体现了他的独特诗风。
• 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。