fetter
fetter 英 [ˈfetə(r)] 美 [ˈfɛtɚ]
vt. 束缚；加脚镣 n. 束缚；羁绊；脚镣
进行时:fettering 过去式:fettered 过去分词:fettered 第三人称单数:fetters 名词复数:fetters
- A fetter is a shackle or chain that is attached to someone’s ankles. To fetter someone is to restrict their movement, either literally or metaphorically. You might feel fettered by your parents' rules, even without the chains.
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- vt. 束缚；加脚镣
- n. 束缚；羁绊；脚镣
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1. You may imprison my body, actually could not fetter my mind.
你可以禁锢我的身体，却束缚不了我的心灵。
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2. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
若无邪狎，那羞怯除了是精神上的束缚和污垢外还能是什么？
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3. They trapped into some kind of complex whirlpool that could not get extrication. This fetter makes people forget the final pursuit of humanity that is calm , simple , free.
人生来是简单的，和文明打交道之后变得复杂了，陷入了某种复杂的旋涡中 无法自拔，这些羁绊使人忘记人性的最终追求是平静、简单、自由。
- fetter (n.) Old English fetor "chain or shackle by which a person or animal is bound by the feet," figuratively "check, restraint," from Proto-Germanic *fetero (source also of Old Saxon feteros (plural), Middle Dutch veter "fetter," in modern Dutch "lace, string," Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fiöturr, Swedish fjätter "fetter"), from PIE root *ped- "foot." The generalized sense of "anything that shackles" had evolved in Old English. Related Fetters.
- fetter (v.) c. 1300, from Old English gefetrian, from the noun (see fetter (n.)). Related: Fettered; fettering.
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