V-T If you say that you are fettered by something, you dislike it because it prevents you from behaving or moving in a free and natural way. 束缚 [文学性]
...a private trust which would not be fettered by bureaucracy.
...一种不会受到官僚束缚的私人信托。
The black mud fettered her movements.
黑泥阻止她前进。
N-PLURAL You can use fetters to refer to things such as rules, traditions, or responsibilities that you dislike because they prevent you from behaving in the way you want. 禁锢 [文学性]
They still live in the cave, to be sure, but they have ceased to be helplessly fettered to dubious and unexamined conceptions.
当然，他们还生活在洞穴中，可已经不再被不可靠和未经检验的观念完全束缚。
Hundreds of millions of Chinese women are no longer the oppressed and fettered group of the past, but masters of the country, the society and their own destiny.
亿万中国妇女从过去倍受压抑和桎梏的群体变成了国家、社会和自己命运的主人。
Had I known hearts thus are fettered.
早知如此绊人心。
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