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.- ...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 - The black mud fettered her movements.
黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
- ...a private trust which would not be fettered by bureaucracy...
- 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.- ...the fetters of social convention.
社会习俗的约束
- ...the fetters of social convention.
- N-COUNT (尤指旧时的)脚镣
Especially in former times,fetterswere chains for a prisoner's feet.- 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。
- He saw a boy in fetters in the dungeons.
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。 - 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。 - Gold, jewelry, works of art, enviable household furniture, are positive fetters.
金银,首饰,工艺品,令人羡慕的家俱都是不可否认的镣铐。 - He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.
他渴望逃脱那不幸婚姻的束缚。 - 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。 - Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.
纪律为愚昧人,就如脚镣,和右手上的手铐。 - 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。 - They were, however, already beginning to break the fetters of the gentile constitution.
不过他们已经开始粉碎氏族制度的枷锁了。 - 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。 - 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。