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

• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance.
  他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛。
• 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。
• The black mud fettered her movements.
  黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
• 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。
• 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。
• I hate being fettered by petty rules and regulations.
  我讨厌受清规戒律的束缚。
• 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。