Fettered
['fetəd]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
錄入:朱迪思
例句/造句/用法:
- 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.
- Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered; they will still be a plague and a care, sometimes a disgrace to you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And at any rate, she lost nothing by continuing the engagement, for she has proved that it fettered neither her inclination nor her actions. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Proceed, said Madame; but my hand was fettered, my ear enchained, my thoughts were carried off captive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It had needed a sort of tempest-shock to bring her to the point; but there she was at last, fettered to a fixed day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
錄入:朱迪思