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

• 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。
• 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。
• Because you are continually seeking comfort, security, you find exploiters who assure you that doubt is a fetter, a thing to be banished.
  因为你不停地在寻找慰藉和安全，你就会找到让你相信质疑是束缚并需要将其摒弃的剥削者。
• 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 for South African capital, apartheid had become a fetter on the mode of production.
  因此，对南非的资本而言，种族隔离制度已成为生产方式的桎梏。
• 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。
• 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。
• Reform will be deepened to remove the institutional obstacles that fetter the development of productive forces.
  继续深化改革，突破束缚生产力发展的体制性障碍。
• Do not fetter, do not restrict, we all hope soars freely.
  不要束缚，不要制约，我们同样渴望自由飞翔。
• This does not mean that we wish to fetter the trade union movement.
  这并不意味着我们想限制工会运动。