时间: 2025-04-26 14:19:57
美: ['ʃækl]
英: ['ʃæk(ə)l]
n. 束缚;桎梏;脚镣
vt. 束缚;加枷锁
n. (Shackle)人名;(英)沙克尔
最后更新时间:2025-04-26 14:19:57
词源分析:Shackle源自古英语“sceacol”,意为“束缚”,与德语“Schäkel”和法语“chaîk”同源,均与“链”相关。
历史背景:该词最早可以追溯到14世纪,用于描述束缚奴隶或囚犯的工具。
课本:在**教材中,shackle可能出现在初中或高中英语教材中。美国的中学教材和大学英语课程中也会出现此词,通常在描述历史、法律或文学作品时使用。
正式与非正式语境:
特殊场合:
The prisoner was forced to wear shackles on his hands and feet.
(囚犯被迫佩戴手铐和脚镣。)
She felt shackled by societal expectations.
(她感到被社会期望束缚。)
The new regulations will shackle innovation in the industry.
(新规章将限制行业内的创新。)
He finally broke the shackles of his past.
(他终于打破了过去的束缚。)
The shackle of debt can be hard to escape.
(债务的束缚是很难逃脱的。)
*. The author uses the metaphor of shackles to illustrate oppression.
(作者用束缚的隐喻来说明压迫。)
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反义词:
通过以上内容,您可以更全面地理解和使用“shackle”这个词。
[[usu passive]] If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do. 阻碍
例:The labour unions are shackled by the law.该工会被法律所羁绊。
例:...people who find themselves shackled to a high-stress job.…发现自己为高负荷工作所束缚的人们。
[[with supp]] If you throw off the shackles of something, you reject it or free yourself from it because it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do. 桎梏
例:...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.…一个愿意甩掉其殖民历史的桎梏的国家。
[N-PLURAL] Shackles are two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping. 镣铐
例:He unbolted the shackles on Billy's hands.他打开比利的手铐。
[V-T] To shackle someone means to put shackles on them. 用镣铐铐
例:...the chains that were shackling his legs.…铐着他双腿的锁链。