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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Do you feel fettered by your dog?" asked Lydia.
  “你觉得小狗拖累你吗？”利迪娅问。
• 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。
• The black mud fettered her movements.
  黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
• 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；
• Firenze had little patience for what he called "fortunetelling," suggesting that to try to understand divination in these terms was being" blinkered and fettered by the limitations "of being human.
  费伦泽他称为“算命”的东西毫无耐心，他提出试着相信那一类的占卜是“被蒙住了双眼，也为人类的缺陷所束缚”。
• 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。
• 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。