fettered是什么意思？

fettered

英['fetəd] 美['fetəd]

• v. 给…上脚镣，束缚( fetter的过去式和过去分词 )；

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.
• We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it. 我们尊重传统,但不被传统所束缚.
• His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance. 他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛.
• The black mud fettered her movements. 黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
• ...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

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  束缚;羁绊
  If you say that you are fettered by something, you dislike it because it prevents you from behaving or moving in a free and natural way.
  例句
  ...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 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 use fetters to refer to things such as rules, traditions, or responsibilities that you dislike because they prevent you from behaving in the way you want.
  例句
  ...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, fetters were chains for a prisoner's feet.
  例句
  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。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. bound by chains fastened around the ankles