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

• Also causes the artistic form to break through traditional the fetter, presented more evolutions and the innovation.
  也使得艺术形式打破传统的束厄狭隘，呈现了更多的演变及立异。
• 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。
• Everybody has happiness which the right pursues itself to want and satisfy, anybody anything has not been possible to fetter.
  人人都有权利追求自己想要的幸福和满足，没有任何人任何事情可以束缚。
• The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it.
  资本的垄断成了与这种垄断一起并在这种垄断之下繁盛起来的生产方式的桎梏。
• And the post-modern stage& ugliness shook off the fetter of beauty and began to exist independently.
  后现代时期，挣脱艺术美的束缚，独立存在。
• 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。
• 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。
• And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
  并当污秽没办法更多时，谦虚不就是一副脚镣以及一个心灵的腐败？
• 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。