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

• Do not fetter, do not restrict, we all hope soars freely.
  不要束缚，不要制约，我们同样渴望自由飞翔。
• To confine or restrain with or as if with manacles; fetter.
  用脚镣或手铐禁闭或限制起来。
• 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。
• They got rid of the fetter& but soon afterwards of their new landed property also.
  这种桎梏他们是摆脱了，但是不久他们也失去了新的土地所有权。
• Huang is something else: a person at war with all the constraints that would fetter him to anything less than an identity capacious enough to contain all his contradictions and ambivalence.
  而黄则截然不同：他与所有那些束缚羁绊他的因素斗争，他的身份一定要足够广阔善变，能够容纳下他所有的矛盾和模棱两可的性格。
• 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。
• So for South African capital, apartheid had become a fetter on the mode of production.
  因此，对南非的资本而言，种族隔离制度已成为生产方式的桎梏。
• 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。
• Love should not be a fetter, so I chose to let you go.
  爱不能成为羁绊，所以要选择放手。