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

• 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。
• World trade of political fetters is necessary.
  不为政治束缚之国际贸易是必需的。
• 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。
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
  即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。
• Not fetters should not be bound.
  不要羁绊，不要束缚。
• The editorial referred to segregation and the heavy invisible fetters placed on all citizens.
  社论提到隔离和无形而又沉重的枷锁，困住无数疲于奔命的人们。
• 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。
• 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。
• Education aims at removing fetters from the mind.
  教育的目的在于解除思想的枷锁。
• She was struggling to escape the fetters of family life.
  她在努力摆脱家庭生活的束缚。