shackles

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(huì)被法律所羈絆。

...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job. …發(fā)現(xiàn)自己為高負(fù)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(xué)性] [with supp]

...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. …一個(gè)愿意甩掉其殖民歷史的桎梏的國(guó)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(kāi)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。