| 词汇 | shackle |
| 释义 | shackle verb[ T ] uk /ˈʃæk.əl/ us /ˈʃæk.əl/ If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do: 阻挠，束缚 The country is shackled by its own debts.这个国家正为其债务所困。 Lack of freedom to act be in bondage to somethingidiom be locked in something bondage bound boxed in disempowering disenfranchisement heel lock non-voluntary nonindependence regimented servitude someone's hands are tiedidiom tethered thumb tie tie someone to something/someone tool unfreedom shackle | American Dictionaryshackle noun[ Cusually pl ] us/ˈʃæk·əl/ one of a pair of metal rings connected by a chain and fastened to a person’s wrists or the bottoms of the legs to prevent the person from escaping: The prisoner was led away in shackles. shackle verb[ T ] us/ˈʃæk·əl/ to put shackles on someone to prevent an escape: The convicts were shackled and led onto the bus. fig. She was no longer shackled by her memories (= they did not prevent her from doing what she wanted to do). Examples of shackleshackle 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. This would avert the danger of becoming shackled to a single architect. Significantly, it also allows women to break free from the patriarchal shackles of their extended families in the rural hinterland. In addition to the presence of guards, security was achieved by shackling and chaining the prisoners. How does one free a libratory ideology from the shackles of becoming itself another normative practice in schools? It was perhaps this personal need to throw off shackles that most influenced her theory of reformatory and prison discipline. The past had become a dead weight that held society back; it shackled people's minds and stifled their sense of patriotism. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Shackle (1955) characterised such a situation as involving unknowable potential states of the world to which probabilities could not be attached. 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. 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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