fetters

Related topics: Jail & punishment

fet·ters /ˈfetəz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] literary

1 LIMITthe things that prevent someone from being free 束缚；桎梏 SYN constraints

fetters of

breaking the fetters of convention

打破传统的束缚

2. SCJchains that were put around a prisoner’s feet in past times 脚镣

Examples from the Corpus

fetters• He soon leaves for a tour of the Continent, with no specific destination, since genius despises fetters.• His legs seemed lashed together like a great horse in fetters.• Ordinary citizens are in political fetters, unable to control their own lives.• Why should we drag about with us the fetters of the discredited thinking of the past?• Then I felt freed, as if I were untying fetters.• The man's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters.

Origin fetters

Old English feter; related to → FOOT1

词汇	fetters
释义	fetters Related topics: Jail & punishment fet·ters /ˈfetəz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] literary 1 LIMITthe things that prevent someone from being free 束缚；桎梏 SYN constraints fetters of breaking the fetters of convention 打破传统的束缚 2. SCJchains that were put around a prisoner’s feet in past times 脚镣 Examples from the Corpus fetters• He soon leaves for a tour of the Continent, with no specific destination, since genius despises fetters.• His legs seemed lashed together like a great horse in fetters.• Ordinary citizens are in political fetters, unable to control their own lives.• Why should we drag about with us the fetters of the discredited thinking of the past?• Then I felt freed, as if I were untying fetters.• The man's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters. Origin fetters Old English feter; related to → FOOT1
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