| 单词 | shackle |
| 释义 | shackle (ʃækəl ) Word forms: shackles , shackling , shackled 1. verb [usually passive] If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do. [formal] The trade unions are shackled by the law. [be VERB-ed + by] ...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job. [be VERB-ed + to] Synonyms: hamper, limit, restrict, restrain 2. plural noun 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. [literary] ...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. [+ of] 3. plural noun 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. He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands. Synonyms: fetter, chain, iron, bond 4. verb To shackle someone means to put shackles on them. ...the chains that were shackling his legs. [VERB noun] She was shackled to a wall. [V-ed to n] Synonyms: fetter, chain, handcuff, secure Collocations: leg shackles Even though you are in a secure room, you spend the entire visit in leg shackles, waist chain and handcuffs. Times, Sunday Times The inmates spend 20 hours a day in their cells and wear leg shackles to limit the number of guards needed to watch over them. The Sun The guards lifted the detainee, took off his leg shackles, and threw him onto his cot. Times, Sunday Times They have commonly been used as leg shackles to restrain prisoners for different purposes until the modern ages. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Leg shackles also are used for chain gangs to keep them together. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 阻碍 Japanese: 束縛する |
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