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

• 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。
• But we are not here to be bound, to be fettered;
  但是我们来这里不是为了被束缚被限制的；
• He was fettered by his family and could not travel any longer.
  他被家庭束缚，不能再到处去旅游了。
• In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits;
  下面有个洞穴，雷霆在其中幽囚，发出一阵阵挣扎怒吼；
• 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。
• I hate being fettered by petty rules and regulations.
  我讨厌受清规戒律的束缚。
• His wife feels spiritually fettered by the pots-and-pans pattern of married life.
  他妻子觉得精神方面受到了婚后家常琐事的束缚。
• 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。
• We are fettered by petty bureaucracy.
  我们受到小官僚的束缚。
• Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
  许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。