fetter

n. 脚镣, 羁绊, 束缚 vt. 束缚, 加脚镣

发音

AU /ˈfet.ə/
UK /ˈfɛt.ə/
US /ˈfɛt.ɚ/

词形变化

fetters 复数 fetters fettered fettering fetters 三单 fettering 现在分词 fettered 过去式 fettered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.

    镣

    脚镣

  2. 2.

    Anything that restricts or restrains.

    束缚

    限制

    比喻
v.
  1. 1.

    To shackle or bind up with fetters.

    束缚

    及物
  2. 2.

    To restrain or impede; to hamper.

    束缚

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

hobble

上位词 4

bond hamper shackle trammel
动词

同义词 1

shackle

上位词 4

hold restrain confine constrain

下位词 3

cuff handcuff manacle

词源

From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). Related to foot. Cognates Cognate with Dutch veter (“cable, chain, hawser; bond, fetter”), Faroese fjøtur (“fetter”), Icelandic fjötur (“fetter”), Swedish fjätter (“fetter, shackle”); also Irish feadh (“extent, length”), feá (“fathom”), Scottish Gaelic feadh (“extent, length; fathom”), Latgalian pāda (“foot”), Latvian pēda (“foot”), Lithuanian pėda (“foot”), Belarusian па́даць (pádacʹ, “to fall”), Bulgarian па́дам (pádam, “to grop, fall”), Czech padat (“to fall”), Polish padać (“to fall”), Russian па́дать (pádatʹ, “to fall”), Serbo-Croatian padati, падати (“to fall”), Slovene padati (“to fall”), Ukrainian па́дати (pádaty, “to fall”), Latin peior, pejor (“worse”), Ancient Greek πέδη (pédē, “fetter, shackle; anklet, bangle”), Armenian ետ (et, “back, backward”), հետ (het, “back; with”), Ossetian фестӕг (festæg), фистӕг (fistæg, “pedestrian”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎿𐎫𐎡 (p-s-t-i, “foot soldier, infantryman”), Sanskrit पद्यते (padyate, “to fall, topple; to perish”), Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (“place; floor, ground”).

来源：wiktionary