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

• 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。
• The existing theory and traditional habits can never become the fetters against Hun Sen's thoughts and actions.
  现成的理论和传统习惯都不能成为束缚洪森思想和行动的羁绊。
• 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。
• Not fetters should not be bound.
  不要羁绊，不要束缚。
• She was struggling to escape the fetters of family life.
  她在努力摆脱家庭生活的束缚。
• MY fetters, you made music in my heart. I played with you all day long and made you my ornament.
  我的镣铐，你在我的心底谱写乐曲；我终日拨弄你，使你成了我增加光彩的装饰物。
• Mobile phone is a tool serving people, not the fetters restricting them.
  手机只是一个用来服务于人们的工具，而不是束缚人们的镣铐。
• 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。
• 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。
• To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。