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 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
  许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Traditional Chinese absolute monarchic system had made traditional political changes get into a difficult situation and had fettered Chinese politics 'transition from traditional form to modern form.
  传统中国的极端君主专制制度，使传统政治变迁陷入了困境，束缚了中国政治向现代的转变。