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

• 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。
• 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。
• They were bound up in fetters of conventionalism.
  他们被因袭主义的枷锁所束缚。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
  因而，当你的自由摆脱了束缚，也就成为更大的自由之枷锁。
• She was struggling to escape the fetters of family life.
  她在努力摆脱家庭生活的束缚。
• 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。