Fetter
['fetə] or ['fɛtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
(n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
校對:罗赞
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Shackle (for the feet), chain, bond, clog, hamper.
v. a. [1]. Shackle (the feet), clog, trammel, hamper, put fetters on.[2]. Chain, bind, tie, confine, restrain.
艾德丽安錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Manacle, hinder, restrain, clog, impede, shackle
ANT:Free, liberate, expedite, accelerate
伯尼編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a chain or shackle for the feet: anything that restrains—used chiefly in pl.—v.t. to put fetters on: to restrain.—adjs. Fett′ered bound by fetters: (zool.) of feet bent backward and apparently unfit for walking; Fett′erless without fetters unrestrained.—n. Fett′erlock (her.) a shackle or lock.
編輯:默里
例句/造句/用法:
- The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- No way but to fetter 'em; got legs,--they'll use 'em,--no mistake. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- How they must have tugged at the pitiless fetters as the fierce fires surged around them! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Conscience, and honour, and the most despotic necessity dragged me apart from her, and kept me sundered with ponderous fetters. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Though his love was as chaste as that of Petrarch for his Laura, it had made fetters of what previously was only a difficulty. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- As for me, every word was a new heap of fetters, riveted above the last. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Here Tom made some movement of his feet, and George's eye fell on the fetters. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- These yer 's a little too small for his build, said Haley, showing the fetters, and pointing out to Tom. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- She saw clearly enough the whole situation, yet she was fettered: she could not smite the stricken soul that entreated hers. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Will Miss Lucy be the sister of a very poor, fettered, burdenedencumbered man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I sank down in a chair, and tried to utter some reply; but my tongue was fettered, and my sight was weak. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around us under the inhuman tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Certainly Crispin knew, but Crispin, fettered by his promise of secrecy, was unable to solve the problem. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- If he were not only to sink from his highest resolve, but to sink into the hideous fettering of domestic hate? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She rattled on: My present business is to enjoy youth, and not to think of fettering myself, by promise or vow, to this man or that. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
錄入:斯科特