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

• Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
  许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。
• The black mud fettered her movements.
  黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
• We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
  我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。
• I hate being fettered by petty rules and regulations.
  我讨厌受清规戒律的束缚。
• 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。
• 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。
• We are fettered by petty bureaucracy.
  我们受到小官僚的束缚。
• 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。
• We oppose the old society and the old system because they oppressed the people and fettered the productive forces.
  我们反对旧社会、旧制度，就是因为它是压迫人民的，是束缚社会生产力发展的。
• 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。