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TOEFL BNC: 19752 COCA: 17357

shackle

Related topics: Jail & punishment
shack·le1 /ˈʃækəl/ noun [countableC]
1  the shackles of something literaryTIE the limits put on your freedom and happiness by something, especially a particular form of government – used to show disapproval 某事物的枷鎖[束縛，桎梏]〔含貶義〕
nThey finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.
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the shackles of something• We like the sight of them taking advantage of a new-era spirit by loosening the shackles of third world debt.• And to Return, free of the shackles of human physical embodiment.• I had always enjoyed being in situations where I was free of the shackles of contrived good looks.
5They finally managed to throw off the shackles of colonialism.
他們終於掙脫了殖民主義的枷鎖。
2. SCJone of a pair of metal rings joined by a chain that are used for fastening together a prisoner’s hands or feet, so that they cannot move easily or escape 鐐铐；手鐐；腳鐐
→ handcuffs
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shackle• It was as though she'd been let loose from shackles she hadn't even known she'd been wearing.• They put my grandson in shackles once on a little drug charge.• Every few years the industry begins a campaign, backed in medical journals, for release from its shackles.• Emboldened by what she saw her friend get away with, Diana felt able to loosen the shackles a little.• And to Return, free of the shackles of human physical embodiment.• These programs were designed to remove the shackles so that black people could reach the starting line on an equal footing.
Related topics: Jail & punishment
shackle2 verb [transitiveT]
1  LIMITto put many limits on what someone can do – used to show disapproval 束縛，阻撓，羁絆〔含貶義〕
Industrial progress is being shackled by a mass of regulations.
工業發展受到了數不清的條條框框的束縛。
2  SCJto put shackles on someone 給…戴鐐铐 SYN chain
He was blindfolded and shackled to a radiator.
他被蒙着眼睛铐在暖氣片上。
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shackle• Emmanuel suffered a miscarriage two weeks later and was taken to the hospital shackled and handcuffed.• The company is shackled by a lack of capital.• In a society still shackled by regulations and bureaucracy he was astonishingly impudent.• Facing such a large first innings total, the batsmen were shackled by the need to save the game.• In short, many Unix vendors are shackled by their desire to own everything.• Baseball owners, once thought to be shackled by tradition, are on a roll.• They destroyed the seminary, arrested Pigneau and shackled him in an eighty-pound wood and iron frame.• He will already be there, shackled, so there is no danger.• The prisoners were shackled together and forced to walk 600 miles across country.
Origin shackle
Old English sceacul (singular)

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