fetter: [OE] Etymologically, fetters are shackles for restraining the ‘feet’. The word comes from prehistoric Germanic *feterō, which derived ultimately from the same Indo-European base, *ped-, as produced English foot. The parallel Latin formation, incidentally, was pedica ‘fetter’, from which English gets impeach. => foot, impeach, pedal
fetter (n.)
Old English fetor "chain or shackle by which a person or animal is bound by the feet," figuratively "check, restraint," from Proto-Germanic *fetero (cognates: Old Saxon feteros (plural), Middle Dutch veter "fetter," in modern Dutch "lace, string," Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fiöturr, Swedish fjätter "fetter"), from PIE root *ped- (1) "foot" (see foot (n.)). The generalized sense of "anything that shackles" had evolved in Old English. Related Fetters.
fetter (v.)
c. 1300, from Old English gefetrian, from the noun (see fetter (n.)). Related: Fettered; fettering.
双语例句
1. This does not mean that we wish to fetter the trade union movement.
这并不意味着我们想限制工会运动.
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2. A clog or fetter on the equity of redemption is void.
阻碍和束缚衡平法上的赎回板均是无效的.
来自辞典例句
3. We reverence tradition but will not is fetter by it.
我们尊敬传统,但不愿被它束缚.
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4. Let Thy goodness , like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
我主, 让此恩典维系流荡的心归你前.
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5. Fetter Sound: Ohne iPod geht bei Schweini gar nichts.