fettered

英 [ˈfetəd]

美 [ˈfetərd]

v.  束缚; 限制，抑制(某人的自由); 给(囚犯)上脚镣
fetter的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：fettered　

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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

adj

• bound by chains fastened around the ankles
  Synonym:shackled

双语例句

• Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
  许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。
• Hundreds of millions of Chinese women are no longer the oppressed and fettered group of the past, but masters of the country, the society and their own destiny.
  亿万中国妇女从过去倍受压抑和桎梏的群体变成了国家、社会和自己命运的主人。
• Forgiveness is emancipation from chains of resentment that keep one fettered to the past.
  宽恕让人从怨恨中解脱出来，而怨恨则让人束缚在过去中。
• "Do you feel fettered by your dog?" asked Lydia.
  “你觉得小狗拖累你吗？”利迪娅问。
• We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
  我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。
• At the same time, however, mankind has gradually lost its attachment to nature. It's ironic that the independence acquired from urban expansion has actually fettered our freedom.
  因此，吊诡的结果是，人因为城市的扩张而建立的自主性，其实也逐日地淘空了人的自主性。
• If today we do not oppose the new stereotyped writing and the new dogmatism, the minds of the Chinese people will be fettered by formalism of another kind.
  如果我们今天不反对新八股和新教条主义，则中国人民的思想又将受另一个形式主义的束缚。
• In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits;
  下面有个洞穴，雷霆在其中幽囚，发出一阵阵挣扎怒吼；
• He was fettered by his family and could not travel any longer.
  他被家庭束缚，不能再到处去旅游了。
• His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance.
  他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛。