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

• 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”。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
  许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。