fetters

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Jail & punishmentfettersfet‧ters /ˈfetəz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] literary 1 LIMITthe things that prevent someone from being free SYN constraintsfetters of breaking the fetters of convention2 SCJchains that were put around a prisoner’s feet in past timesExamples from the Corpusfetters• He soon leaves for a tour of the Continent, with no specific destination, since genius despises fetters.• His legs seemed lashed together like a great horse in fetters.• Ordinary citizens are in political fetters, unable to control their own lives.• Why should we drag about with us the fetters of the discredited thinking of the past?• Then I felt freed, as if I were untying fetters.• The man's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters.Origin fetters Old English feter; related to → FOOT1

单词	fetters
释义	fetters From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Jail & punishmentfettersfet‧ters /ˈfetəz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] literary 1 LIMITthe things that prevent someone from being free SYN constraintsfetters of breaking the fetters of convention2 SCJchains that were put around a prisoner’s feet in past timesExamples from the Corpusfetters• He soon leaves for a tour of the Continent, with no specific destination, since genius despises fetters.• His legs seemed lashed together like a great horse in fetters.• Ordinary citizens are in political fetters, unable to control their own lives.• Why should we drag about with us the fetters of the discredited thinking of the past?• Then I felt freed, as if I were untying fetters.• The man's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters.Origin fetters Old English feter; related to → FOOT1
随便看	drag down drag etc to safety drag in drag into drag kicking and screaming into drag name through the mire drag name through the mud drag on drag out drag out of drag over the coals drag queen drag race drag somebody kicking and screaming into something drag somebody through the courts drag somebody/something into something drag somebody/something ↔ down drag somebody/something ↔ in drag somebody/something ↔ up drag somebody’s name through the mire drag somebody’s name through the mud drag something away/along/through etc drag something out of somebody drag something ↔ out drag through etc