| 词汇 | manacle |
| 释义 | manacle verb[ T ] uk /ˈmæn.ə.kəl/ us /ˈmæn.ə.kəl/ to put manacles around a person's legs or arms: 铐上（手铐、脚镣） They had manacled her legs together.他们把她的双腿铐在一起。 His arm was manacled to a ring on the wall.他的手臂被铐在墙上的金属环上。 Compare handcuff cuffverb Locking and bolting bar batten bolt handcuff hermetically latch lock lock (something) up lock someone out lock something away lock something in lockable love lock padlock relock self-locking shut shut someone away under lock and keyidiom unlockable Examples of manaclemanacle In the course of his trial he had protested desperately against the dishonour of being manacled. The essential point about manacling the animal and keeping it quiet was to be sure that the cut did not go too deep. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there is a difference between encouraging an industry and manacling it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely the point at issue is that, when medical staff say that people should not be manacled, they should not be manacled? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The public, of all political parties, have objected to the manacles placed on local government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I really cannot see why we want to have manacles or any punitive procedure of any kind, sort or description. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will she ensure that those who continually criticise the prison service are manacled to the facts for a change, rather than to their own rhetoric? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are exercised daily and are not manacled while so detained. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They had been imprisoned, manacled and very roughly mishandled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet still it is manacled to pretty near the prewar price for a seat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They certainly would oppose this further manacle on their activities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Two months ago, 400 hostages—many of them manacled to lamp posts and telegraph poles—were used to deter an air strike. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Until this measure is got through we are impotent, our hands are manacled and our feet fettered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its object is not only to provide us with information, but also to shackle upon us the manacles of fear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was not the action taken to manacle this prisoner in the clearest breach of that undertaking? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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