shackled

英 [ˈʃækld]

美 [ˈʃækld]

v.  给(某人)戴镣铐; 束缚; 阻挠; 成为…的羁绊
shackle的过去分词和过去式

COCA.42844

柯林斯词典

• VERB 束缚;阻挠;成为…的羁绊
  If youare shackled bysomething, it prevents you from doing what you want to do.
  1. The trade unions are shackled by the law.
     工会受法律的制约。
  2. ...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 theshackles ofsomething, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do.
  1. ...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
  Shacklesare 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.
  1. He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands.
     他打开了比利的手铐。
• VERB 给…上镣铐
  Toshacklesomeone means to put shackles on them.
  1. ...the chains that were shackling his legs...
     铐着他双腿的链子
  2. She was shackled to a wall.
     她被铐在一面墙上。

英英释义

adj

• bound by chains fastened around the ankles
  Synonym:fettered

双语例句

• On the last day that I was shackled and chained, the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico apologized to me.
  戴镣铐的最后一天，美国新墨西哥州法院的首席法官向我道歉了。
• They are shackled by convention.
  他们受到习俗的束缚。
• Unlike London agents, who are paid a salary by their firm, New York brokers are in effect self-employed, and therefore not shackled to a nine-to-five working day.
  与伦敦经纪人（他们由公司支付相应的薪水）不同的是，纽约的经纪人实际上是自己经营，因此并不受朝九晚五的工作套路羁绊。
• The west-made order which has long shackled so much of our mind and actions by its so-called unitary world rules or mainstream discourse is, by no means, the sole international order.
  西方的体系绝不是唯一的国际体系，这个体系制造出笼的所谓世界统一的规则或主流的话语，禁锢了我们太多的思想和行动。
• The prisoners were kept shackled during the trial.
  审判期间，犯人戴着镣铐。
• He had come to think of himself as trammelled and shackled by domestic responsibilities.
  他终于感觉到自己受到了家庭责任的重重束缚。
• The best stories of this sort usually involve the innocent foreigner being shackled or bundled off to the state penitentiary.
  大多数这类故事通常会涉及无辜的外国人被带上手铐或被匆匆送到国家监狱。
• Family doctors are anxious to provide a proper service for their patients, but they can't give them the attention they need if they've shackled with paperwork.
  家庭医生都迫切希望为病人提供适当的服务，但他们若为日常抄抄写写的工作所束缚，便不能给病人必需的关心。
• She was shackled to a wall.
  她被铐在一面墙上。
• People were locked into a serfdom of ideas and politics that shackled their national life.
  那里的人们在思想和政治领域受到奴役，国民生活被戴上了锁链。