fettered

1. 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.
   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。
2. 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.
   1. ...the fetters of social convention.
      社会习俗的约束
3. N-COUNT (尤指旧时的)脚镣
   Especially in former times, fetters were 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。

1. The black mud fettered her movements.
   黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。
2. 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。
3. We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
   我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。
4. "Do you feel fettered by your dog?" asked Lydia.
   “你觉得小狗拖累你吗？”利迪娅问。
5. Hundreds of millions of Chinese women are no longer the oppressed and fettered group of the past, but masters of the country, the society and their own destiny.
   亿万中国妇女从过去倍受压抑和桎梏的群体变成了国家、社会和自己命运的主人。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. I hate being fettered by petty rules and regulations.
   我讨厌受清规戒律的束缚。
9. He did this in order to seek truth from facts and be fettered by a Confucian school of idealist philosophy.
   其目的就是要人们实事求是，从程朱理学的束缚中解脱出来。
10. 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。
11. And the patriarchal clan made the Nuo Play be handed down from ancient times, at the same time, it limited and fettered the development of the Nuo Play and made it remain in the primitive form.
    同时宗族势力又限制并束缚了贵池傩戏的发展，使之一直保持古朴的原初形态；
12. 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。
13. Years of imprisonment warped his disposition. prisoners fettered by chains;
    长年的囚禁生活把他的性格扭曲了。
14. But we are not here to be bound, to be fettered;
    但是我们来这里不是为了被束缚被限制的；
15. 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。
16. Firenze had little patience for what he called "fortunetelling," suggesting that to try to understand divination in these terms was being" blinkered and fettered by the limitations "of being human.
    费伦泽他称为“算命”的东西毫无耐心，他提出试着相信那一类的占卜是“被蒙住了双眼，也为人类的缺陷所束缚”。
17. Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence.
    许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。
18. 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。
19. In the manifesto "intellectuals" means all intellectuals who are persecuted and fettered.
    在宣言上所说的“学”，即是指一切受迫害、受限制的知识分子。
20. Oppressed and Fettered Females in Patriarchy Society in Kate Chopin's Works
    从肖邦作品看传统父权制社会对女性的压迫与束缚
21. 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；
22. 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。
23. His wife feels spiritually fettered by the pots-and-pans pattern of married life.
    他妻子觉得精神方面受到了婚后家常琐事的束缚。
24. He was fettered by his family and could not travel any longer.
    他被家庭束缚，不能再到处去旅游了。
25. His affairs were not fettered with any incumbrance.
    他的业务未与任何人发生纠葛。
26. The minds of the comrades there are emancipated, they defy heaven and earth and are not fettered by shackles and manacles, and their plans are dynamic.
    他们思想解放，天不怕地不怕，没有什么脚镣手铐的束缚，规划搞得很生动。
27. Though man is fettered by time and space, the soul can take off, striving for "time over time".
    人类逃不出时间和空间的限制，但是心灵可以放飞，去寻找“时间之外的时间”。
28. We are fettered by petty bureaucracy.
    我们受到小官僚的束缚。
29. Just think, the reason why we are not happy from dawn till dusk is being fettered by invisible ropes.
    想一想，从早晨到晚上，我们之所以不快乐，是因为我们被无形的绳索所束缚住了。

adj

1. bound by chains fastened around the ankles

   Synonym:    shackled