VERB 束缚;阻挠;成为…的羁绊 If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do.
The trade unions are shackled by the law. 工会受法律的制约。
...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job. 发现自己被高压工作所束缚的人们
N-PLURAL 束缚;羁绊;枷锁 If you throw off the shackles of something, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do.
...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. 决定摆脱过去殖民束缚的国家
N-PLURAL 镣铐;手铐;脚镣 Shackles are two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping.
He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands. 他打开了比利的手铐。
VERB 给…上镣铐 To shackle someone means to put shackles on them.
...the chains that were shackling his legs... 铐着他双腿的链子