fettered
v. 给…上脚镣,束缚( fetter的过去式和过去分词 )
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.
...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。
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.
...the fetters of social convention.
社会习俗的约束
Especially in former times, fetters were chains for a prisoner's feet.
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。
1. bound by chains fastened around the ankles
We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
我们尊重传统,但不被传统所束缚.
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。
His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance.
他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛.
He was fettered with irons.
他带上了镣铐.