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

• Not fetters should not be bound.
  不要羁绊，不要束缚。
• They were bound up in fetters of conventionalism.
  他们被因袭主义的枷锁所束缚。
• 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。
• To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。
• They became so many fetters.
  它变成了束缚生产的桎梏。
• He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.
  他渴望逃脱那不幸婚姻的束缚。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。
• 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。
• 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。
• And I was in fetters, at the mercy of the mob.
  我身着枷锁，任暴徒摆布。