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.- ...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 - The black mud fettered her movements.
黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
- ...a private trust which would not be fettered by bureaucracy...
- 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.- ...the fetters of social convention.
社会习俗的约束
- ...the fetters of social convention.
- N-COUNT (尤指旧时的)脚镣
Especially in former times,fetterswere chains for a prisoner's feet.- 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。
- He saw a boy in fetters in the dungeons.
英英释义
adj
- bound by chains fastened around the ankles
双语例句
- Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The ugly duck changed into a swan because of his going out of the place which fettered him.
丑小鸭变成了白天鹅,因为它走出了篱笆的限制。 - We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
我们尊重传统,但不被传统所束缚。 - 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。 - He did this in order to seek truth from facts and be fettered by a Confucian school of idealist philosophy.
其目的就是要人们实事求是,从程朱理学的束缚中解脱出来。 - Forgiveness is emancipation from chains of resentment that keep one fettered to the past.
宽恕让人从怨恨中解脱出来,而怨恨则让人束缚在过去中。