shackles 的 2 个定义
- a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- a hobble or fetter for a horse or other animal.
- the U-shaped bar of a padlock, one end of which is pivoted or sliding, the other end of which can be released, as for passing through a staple, and then fastened, as for securing a hasp.
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shack·led, shack·ling.
- to put a shackle or shackles on; confine or restrain by a shackle or shackles.
- to fasten or couple with a shackle.
- to restrain in action, thought, etc., as by restrictions; restrict the freedom of.
shackles 近义词
restraint
restrain
更多shackles例句
- Being able to orient a map using a compass is the basis of navigation, but it’s also a fun challenge and it frees you from the shackles of modern technology.
- The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday significantly limited when handcuffs, shackles and other restraints can be used on young people when they appear in court.
- News reports of her testimony this week were paired with photos of her dancing in shackles.
- “We need to take the shackles off and get out of our own way,” he says.
- At the end of July, his request for deportation was granted and he was flown back to Honduras in shackles.
- Conservatives distrust public officials and want to shackle them with detailed rules.
- Twice a day, soldiers shackle Moqbel to a restraint chair, and force a feeding tube into his stomach though his nose.
- An institution that might have protected us two hundred years ago has become a shackle.
- So given all the evidence against it, why shackle women at all?
- “Why, the beggars have knocked the shackle off the chain,” cried Raft.
- Pastern, pas′tėrn, n. the part of a horse's foot from the fetlock to the hoof, where the shackle is fastened.
- As he drove the rivet into the shackle on his left arm, a spurt of bruised blood from the old Mexican War wound stained the iron.
- Religious dogma is sometimes used to shackle human creativity, and the form of belief is allowed to stifle the vitality of faith.
- I am ready to take you to any place of safety you can name, for my promise is as strong as an iron shackle.