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

• Keynes thought that capitalism needed to be in fetters; Friedman thought it would behave if left alone.
  凯恩斯认为，需要对资本主义加以束缚；而弗里德曼则认为，若放开手脚，资本主义将呈现恰当行为。
• Education aims at removing fetters from the mind.
  教育的目的在于解除思想的枷锁。
• He longed to escape from the fetters of an unhappy marriage.
  他渴望逃脱那不幸婚姻的束缚。
• To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
  要用链子捆他们的君王，用铁镣锁他们的大臣。
• 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。
• Deliver yourself from the fetters of lust and passion.
  把你自己从欲望与激情的束缚中释放出来。
• She was struggling to escape the fetters of family life.
  她在努力摆脱家庭生活的束缚。
• Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.
  纪律为愚昧人，就如脚镣，和右手上的手铐。
• 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。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。