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

• They were bound up in fetters of conventionalism.
  他们被因袭主义的枷锁所束缚。
• To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。
• 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 became so many fetters.
  它变成了束缚生产的桎梏。
• Affection is a game, a decision is you my fetters.
  感情是场博弈，决策就是你我的羁绊。
• Education aims at removing fetters from the mind.
  教育的目的在于解除思想的枷锁。
• Where Reason makes kites of her laws and flies them, and Truth sets Fact free from its fetters.
  在那儿，理智以她的法律造为纸鸢而飞放，真理也使事实从桎梏中自由了。
• 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。
• 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。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。