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

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。
If today we do not oppose the new stereotyped writing and the new dogmatism, the minds of the Chinese people will be fettered by formalism of another kind.
如果我们今天不反对新八股和新教条主义，则中国人民的思想又将受另一个形式主义的束缚。
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。
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；
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。
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。
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。
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。
His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance.
他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛。
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；