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

• To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
  逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。
• 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。
• They became so many fetters.
  它变成了束缚生产的桎梏。
• 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。
• They were, however, already beginning to break the fetters of the gentile constitution.
  不过他们已经开始粉碎氏族制度的枷锁了。