Shackle
['ʃæk(ə)l] or ['ʃækl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).
(noun.) a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar.
校對:帕蒂--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Stubble.
(n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
(n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
(n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
(n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
(n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
(n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
(v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
(v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
校對:劳伦斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Fetter, gyve, chain, hamper, MANACLE, handcuff.
v. a. [1]. Fetter, chain, manacle, hamper.[2]. Trammel, embarrass, obstruct, impede, restrict.
手打:柴门霍夫
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Fetter, bind, chain, hamper, harness, impede,[See CONTEMPTIBLE_and_PALTRY]
SYN:Fetter, gype, chain, obstruction, embarrassment
ANT:Aid, assistance, subsidiary, help
整理:马文
解釋/意思:
n. a curved bar as of iron: a link or staple: a link securing two ankle-rings or two wrist-rings together and so (pl.) fetters manacles: a hinderance.—v.t. to fetter: to tie the limbs of: to confine.—ns. Shack′le-bolt a bolt having a shackle on the end: (her.) a bearing representing a fetlock for hobbling a horse; Shack′le-joint a peculiar kind of articulation seen in the exoskeleton of some fishes.
錄入:索尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Then why should you shackle poor Gurth, uncle, for the fault of his dog Fangs? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Every slight shackle she had ever laid on me, she, from that time, with quiet hand removed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I tell thee, shackles and the prison-house shall punish the next offence of this kind. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Tom got in, and Haley, drawing out from under the wagon seat a heavy pair of shackles, made them fast around each ankle. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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