| 单词 | shackle |
| 释义 | shackle verb[T] uk/ˈʃæk.əl/us/ˈʃæk.əl/If you are shackled by something, itpreventsyou from doing what youwantto do: 阻挠，束缚Thecountryis shackled byitsowndebts.这个国家正为其债务所困。 Lack of freedom to act
shackle| American Dictionaryshackle noun[Cusually pl] us/ˈʃæk·əl/one of apairofmetalringsconnectedby achainandfastenedto a person’swristsor thebottomsof thelegstopreventthepersonfromescaping: Theprisonerwasledaway in shackles. shackle verb[T] us/ˈʃæk·əl/to put shackles on someone topreventanescape: Theconvictswere shackled andledonto thebus. fig.She was nolongershackled by hermemories(= they did notpreventher from doing what shewantedto do). Examplesofshackleshackle As a consequence of this religious emancipation, only those individuals who have shed the shackles of religion can be permitted into its secularly hallowed halls. From theCambridge English Corpus This would avert the danger of becoming shackled to a single architect. From theCambridge English Corpus Significantly, it also allows women to break free from the patriarchal shackles of their extended families in the rural hinterland. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition to the presence of guards, security was achieved by shackling and chaining the prisoners. From theCambridge English Corpus How does one free a libratory ideology from the shackles of becoming itself another normative practice in schools? From theCambridge English Corpus It was perhaps this personal need to throw off shackles that most influenced her theory of reformatory and prison discipline. From theCambridge English Corpus The past had become a dead weight that held society back; it shackled people's minds and stifled their sense of patriotism. From theCambridge English Corpus Experimental social games in which subjects are not allowed to speak to one another are a bit like sports competitions where subjects must compete with their legs shackled together. From theCambridge English Corpus The only one who is projecting feelings onto the idol is the iconoclast with a hammer, not those who should be freed, by his gesture, from their shackles. From theCambridge English Corpus Broadly speaking, the opera is less shackled by convention than often assumed: its manipulation of the tradition that feeds it is, on every level, radically novel. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps because in the high noon of modernity, that past, uncontaminated by modernity, allows a freer space for imagining a future less shackled by the present. From theCambridge English Corpus But we are not shackled to experience; we must even separate ourselves from it in order to attain or to reconstruct the "grammar" of this confused multimessage. From theCambridge English Corpus We say this with some trepidation because academic researchers require the freedom to do research for its own sake-and they should not be shackled by real world concerns. From theCambridge English Corpus Shackle(1955) characterised such a situation as involving unknowable potential states of the world to which probabilities could not be attached. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, by liberating semantics from its syntactic shackles, the parallel architecture makes it possible to develop a fully psychological theory of meaning and its relation to perception. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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