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VERB
束缚;阻挠;成为…的羁绊 If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do.
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The trade unions are shackled by the law.
工会受法律的制约。
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...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job.
发现自己被高压工作所束缚的人们
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N-PLURAL
束缚;羁绊;枷锁 If you throw off the shackles of something, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do.
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...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.
决定摆脱过去殖民束缚的国家
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N-PLURAL
镣铐;手铐;脚镣 Shackles are two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping.
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He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands.
他打开了比利的手铐。
- Noun
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1. a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
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2. a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
- 1. All through the feudal ages the ruling class did their best to shackle women with Confucian ethics.
- 历代封建统治阶级都力图用礼教把妇女禁锢起来。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 2. He's too young to shackle himself with the responsibilities of a family.
- 他还太年轻，不能用家庭责任来束缚自己。
来自《简明英汉词典》
