shackled

英 [ˈʃækld]

美 [ˈʃækld]

v.  给(某人)戴镣铐; 束缚; 阻挠; 成为…的羁绊
shackle的过去分词和过去式

COCA.42844

柯林斯词典

• VERB 束缚;阻挠;成为…的羁绊
  If youare shackled bysomething, it prevents you from doing what you want to do.
  1. The trade unions are shackled by the law.
     工会受法律的制约。
  2. ...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job.
     发现自己被高压工作所束缚的人们
• N-PLURAL 束缚;羁绊;枷锁
  If you throw off theshackles ofsomething, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do.
  1. ...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.
     决定摆脱过去殖民束缚的国家
• N-PLURAL 镣铐;手铐;脚镣
  Shacklesare two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping.
  1. He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands.
     他打开了比利的手铐。
• VERB 给…上镣铐
  Toshacklesomeone means to put shackles on them.
  1. ...the chains that were shackling his legs...
     铐着他双腿的链子
  2. She was shackled to a wall.
     她被铐在一面墙上。

英英释义

adj

• bound by chains fastened around the ankles
  Synonym:fettered

双语例句

• On the last day that I was shackled and chained, the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico apologized to me.
  戴镣铐的最后一天，美国新墨西哥州法院的首席法官向我道歉了。
• Unlike London agents, who are paid a salary by their firm, New York brokers are in effect self-employed, and therefore not shackled to a nine-to-five working day.
  与伦敦经纪人（他们由公司支付相应的薪水）不同的是，纽约的经纪人实际上是自己经营，因此并不受朝九晚五的工作套路羁绊。
• The impact: a shackled global economy growing at a much slower pace than in previous decades.
  其结果是：全球经济束手束脚，其增长速度要比过去几十年慢得多。
• People were locked into a serfdom of ideas and politics that shackled their national life.
  那里的人们在思想和政治领域受到奴役，国民生活被戴上了锁链。
• Last night, he beat me and shackled me, leaving me cold and starving the entire night. I have no idea where he's taking me now.
  你不知道前面走的那个，就是叫「晚上」的东西，他很恐怖啊，昨天我被他打，然后被绑了整个晚上又饿又冷，现在不晓得要带我到哪里去。
• You cannot compete if there are rules that tie your hands when your competitors in the US or Europe or Asia are not shackled in the same way.
  如果规定绑住了你的手脚，而你在美国、欧洲或亚洲的竞争者却没有受到同样的束缚，那你就不可能竞争。
• He had come to think of himself as trammelled and shackled by domestic responsibilities.
  他终于感觉到自己受到了家庭责任的重重束缚。
• The government is shackled by its own debts.
  政府被其债务所束缚。
• Family doctors are anxious to provide a proper service for their patients, but they can't give them the attention they need if they've shackled with paperwork.
  家庭医生都迫切希望为病人提供适当的服务，但他们若为日常抄抄写写的工作所束缚，便不能给病人必需的关心。
• They are shackled by convention.
  他们受到习俗的束缚。