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

• You were companions of my long dark night, and I make my bow to you, before I bid you good-bye, my fetters.
  你是我漫漫长夜中的伴侣，在我向你告别之前，容我向你顶礼，我的镣铐。
• 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。
• Education aims at removing fetters from the mind.
  教育的目的在于解除思想的枷锁。
• 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。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。
• She was struggling to escape the fetters of family life.
  她在努力摆脱家庭生活的束缚。
• They were bound up in fetters of conventionalism.
  他们被因袭主义的枷锁所束缚。
• 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。
• 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。
• He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.
  他渴望逃脱那不幸婚姻的束缚。