单词 | fetter |
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音标 | ['fetə] |
解释 | n./v.(带)脚镣;束缚 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n.脚镣(a shackle or chain for the feet);束缚(restraint) 【考】 反义词:set free(释放); liberate(解放) 【例】 The horse broke away from its fetters. The guard fettered the prisoner. |
字源 | fetter (n.) Old English fetor "chain or shackle for the feet," from Proto-Germanic *fetero (cognates: Old Saxon feteros (plural), Middle Dutch veter "fetter," in modern Dutch "lace, string," Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fiöturr, Swedish fjätter), from PIE root *ped- "foot" (see foot (n.)). The generalized sense of "anything that shackles" had evolved in Old English. Related Fetters. fetter (v.) c.1300, from Old English gefetrian (see fetter (n.)). Related: Fettered; fettering. |
不择手段背单词 | v. 上镣铐; 束缚...的自由 = hamper; n 脚镣; 桎梏; 束缚 = restraint 【记】fet = feet脚, ter: 脚镣 【反】set free(释放); liberate = loose(v 释放; 解放); enfranchise(v 解放)-enfetter(v 束缚); management(管理)-unfettered liberty(没有约束的自由) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】feet + er 脚上挂的东西 |
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