shackle

柯林斯词典

1. V-T If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do. 阻礙[正式] [usu passive]
The labour unions are shackled by the law. 該工會被法律所羈絆。
...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job. …發現自己爲高負荷工作所束縛的人們。
2. N-PLURAL 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[文學性] [with supp]
...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. …一個願意甩掉其殖民歷史的桎梏的國家。
3. N-PLURAL 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. 鐐銬
He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands. 他打開比利的手銬。
4. V-T To shackle someone means to put shackles on them. 用鐐銬銬
...the chains that were shackling his legs. …銬著他雙腿的鎖鏈。