fettered

基本解釋

We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.
我們尊重傳統(tǒng)，但不被傳統(tǒng)所束縛。
《新英漢大辭典》
But the world cannot fail to notice that this president’s power is unusually fettered, at home as well as abroad.
但世界已經(jīng)注意到，這位總統(tǒng)不論在國內(nèi)還是國外都受到不同尋常的束縛。
And Greece is one of Europe’s most fettered economies, where politicians have piled up debt even in good times and treated the state as a source of pillage and patronage.
并且，希臘是歐洲最束縛的經(jīng)濟(jì)之一。希臘政治家即使在經(jīng)濟(jì)繁榮時期積累了越來越多的債務(wù)并把國家作為搶劫和贊助的來源。

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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.
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.