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.
雙語例句
1. This does not mean that we wish to fetter the trade union movement.
這並不意味著我們想限製工會運動.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. A clog or fetter on the equity of redemption is void.
阻礙和束縛衡平法上的贖回板均是無效的.
來自辭典例句
3. We reverence tradition but will not is fetter by it.
我們尊敬傳統,但不願被它束縛.
來自互聯網
4. Let Thy goodness , like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
我主, 讓此恩典維係流蕩的心歸你前.
來自互聯網
5. Fetter Sound: Ohne iPod geht bei Schweini gar nichts.