fetters

英 [ˈfetəz]

美 [ˈfetərz]

v.  束缚; 限制，抑制(某人的自由); 给(囚犯)上脚镣
n.  束缚; 桎梏; 羁绊; 脚镣
fetter的第三人称单数和复数

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。

双语例句

• Deliver yourself from the fetters of lust and passion.
  把你自己从欲望与激情的束缚中释放出来。
• Keynes thought that capitalism needed to be in fetters; Friedman thought it would behave if left alone.
  凯恩斯认为，需要对资本主义加以束缚；而弗里德曼则认为，若放开手脚，资本主义将呈现恰当行为。
• Not fetters should not be bound.
  不要羁绊，不要束缚。
• The other side of benevolence and righteousness is the handcuff and fetters, devised to trap people in guilt.
  仁义的另一层意义，其实就是脚镣手铐，专门陷人于不义以及罪恶之中。
• 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。
• Gold, jewelry, works of art, enviable household furniture, are positive fetters.
  金银，首饰，工艺品，令人羡慕的家俱都是不可否认的镣铐。
• You were companions of my long dark night, and I make my bow to you, before I bid you good-bye, my fetters.
  你是我漫漫长夜中的伴侣，在我向你告别之前，容我向你顶礼，我的镣铐。
• Only death will break the fetters of this carefully devised entrapment.
  只有到死，才能打破这一精心策划束缚。
• World trade of political fetters is necessary.
  不为政治束缚之国际贸易是必需的。
• Where Reason makes kites of her laws and flies them, and Truth sets Fact free from its fetters.
  在那儿，理智以她的法律造为纸鸢而飞放，真理也使事实从桎梏中自由了。