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

• The black mud fettered her movements.
  黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
• Years of imprisonment warped his disposition. prisoners fettered by chains;
  长年的囚禁生活把他的性格扭曲了。
• 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。
• Hundreds of millions of Chinese women are no longer the oppressed and fettered group of the past, but masters of the country, the society and their own destiny.
  亿万中国妇女从过去倍受压抑和桎梏的群体变成了国家、社会和自己命运的主人。
• 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；
• In scientific research, one should break new paths and not be fettered by accepted theories.
  进行科学研究，不能囿于成说，要敢于创新。
• 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。
• The minds of the comrades there are emancipated, they defy heaven and earth and are not fettered by shackles and manacles, and their plans are dynamic.
  他们思想解放，天不怕地不怕，没有什么脚镣手铐的束缚，规划搞得很生动。
• In the manifesto "intellectuals" means all intellectuals who are persecuted and fettered.
  在宣言上所说的“学”，即是指一切受迫害、受限制的知识分子。
• Though man is fettered by time and space, the soul can take off, striving for "time over time".
  人类逃不出时间和空间的限制，但是心灵可以放飞，去寻找“时间之外的时间”。