英 [ˈʃækl] 美 [ˈʃækl]
n. 束缚；桎梏；脚镣
vt. 束缚；加枷锁
n. （Shackle）人名；（英）沙克尔
复数shackles
第三人称单数shackles
现在分词shackling
过去式shackled
过去分词shackled
shackle /ˈʃækəl/ CET6+ [ shackling shackled shackles ]
及物动词 If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do. 阻碍
The labour unions are shackled by the law.
该工会被法律所羁绊。
...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job.
…发现自己为高负荷工作所束缚的人们。
复数型名词 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. 桎梏
...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.
…一个愿意甩掉其殖民历史的桎梏的国家。
复数型名词 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. 镣铐
He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands.
他打开比利的手铐。
及物动词 To shackle someone means to put shackles on them. 用镣铐铐
...the chains that were shackling his legs.
…铐着他双腿的锁链。
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shackles(铁链), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
束缚；桎梏；[法]脚镣
chain / restriction / cord
Superstition is a great shackle on men's minds.
迷信是人们思想的一大桎梏。
But debt can also limit one's freedom-it's a shackle, a contract.
但是，债务也可以限制一个人的自由——它是一个枷锁，一份合同。
He says Gerrard would be an essential signing, while urging the club to shackle Maicon.
他说杰拉德是一庄重要的签约，而同时他要求俱乐部留住麦孔。
In language both lawyerly and graphic, the attorneys gave legal justification to slap,strip,and shackle detainees.
VOA : standard.2009.04.17
Whether electorates will be quite so quick to shackle themselves to Germanic fiscal rules is another matter.
They constitute the use of governmental power to intrude on the privacy and shackle the political freedom of American citizens.
But an unregulated environment attracts all those who do not want to play by the rules that shackle traditional money managers.
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