| 词汇 | shackled |
| 释义 | shackled past simple and past participle ofshackle 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 shackle someone's hands are tiedidiom tethered tie tie someone to something/someone unfree unfreedom Examples of shackledshackled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In other words, the end-user's research is shackled by the owner of the upstream research tool. If woman loses her self-understanding she will become shackled to a civilisation in crisis, transformed into a body, part of decadent femininity. This would avert the danger of becoming shackled to a single architect. 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. 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. He now appears as the great man who is driving forward in sweeping away the slums which have shackled our life for so long. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the seed of future disaster, particularly when we are shackled with overvalued currency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are the people of whom we are primarily thinking—these helpless and inarticulate masses, poverty-stricken and shackled and bound by ancient religious and social observances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They all face international competition and are all shackled by overvaluation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the cars are shackled there will be diplomatic incidents and fines will not be paid to the police funds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Labour has been shackled, and property has been left free. 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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