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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We are fettered by petty bureaucracy.
  我们受到小官僚的束缚。
• 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。
• Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
  许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。
• His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance.
  他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛。
• We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
  我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。
• 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；
• 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。