fettered

基本解释

• adj.被拘束的；没自由的；带镣铐的
• 动词fetter的过去式和过去分词形式.

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
  我们尊重传统， 但不被传统所束缚。
  《新英汉大辞典》
• But the world cannot fail to notice that this president’s power is unusually fettered, at home as well as abroad.
  但世界已经注意到，这位总统不论在国内还是国外都受到不同寻常的束缚。
• And Greece is one of Europe’s most fettered economies, where politicians have piled up debt even in good times and treated the state as a source of pillage and patronage.
  并且，希腊是欧洲最束缚的经济之一。 希腊政治家即使在经济繁荣时期积累了越来越多的债务并把国家作为抢劫和赞助的来源。

权威例句

• Debates spawned by China's recent crises are likely to become less fettered.
  ECONOMIST: China before the Olympics
• Yet, she and her call center compatriots are fettered by a system that neither enables nor encourages them to think outside the box.
  FORBES: How to Fail your Call Centers
• And Greece is one of Europe's most fettered economies, where politicians have piled up debt even in good times and treated the state as a source of pillage and patronage.
  ECONOMIST: The streets of Athens are in the grip of an ugly mood

词组短语

短语

• self -fettered 闭关锁国
• be fettered by convention 受到传统的束缚
• fettered administrative act 羁束行政行为
• be fettered by old conventions 墨守成规
• no longer fettered to dare 不再又束缚了

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• 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.
• 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.