fettered

英 [ˈfetəd]

美 [ˈfetərd]

v.  束缚; 限制，抑制(某人的自由); 给(囚犯)上脚镣
fetter的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：fettered　

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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

adj

• bound by chains fastened around the ankles
  Synonym:shackled

双语例句

• Just think, the reason why we are not happy from dawn till dusk is being fettered by invisible ropes.
  想一想，从早晨到晚上，我们之所以不快乐，是因为我们被无形的绳索所束缚住了。
• His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance.
  他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛。
• If today we do not oppose the new stereotyped writing and the new dogmatism, the minds of the Chinese people will be fettered by formalism of another kind.
  如果我们今天不反对新八股和新教条主义，则中国人民的思想又将受另一个形式主义的束缚。
• Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated.
  今天真正的边界并非在国家之间，而是在有权者与无权者、由者与失去自由者、贵者和卑微者之间。
• He did this in order to seek truth from facts and be fettered by a Confucian school of idealist philosophy.
  其目的就是要人们实事求是，从程朱理学的束缚中解脱出来。
• The ugly duck changed into a swan because of his going out of the place which fettered him.
  丑小鸭变成了白天鹅，因为它走出了篱笆的限制。
• Oppressed and Fettered Females in Patriarchy Society in Kate Chopin's Works
  从肖邦作品看传统父权制社会对女性的压迫与束缚
• At the same time, however, mankind has gradually lost its attachment to nature. It's ironic that the independence acquired from urban expansion has actually fettered our freedom.
  因此，吊诡的结果是，人因为城市的扩张而建立的自主性，其实也逐日地淘空了人的自主性。
• The black mud fettered her movements.
  黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
• We oppose the old society and the old system because they oppressed the people and fettered the productive forces.
  我们反对旧社会、旧制度，就是因为它是压迫人民的，是束缚社会生产力发展的。