时间: 2025-04-24 20:13:58
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:2025-04-24 20:13:58
词源分析:shackle源自古英语词“sceacla”,意为“链条”,与古法语“ chacel”相关,意指“束缚”或“锁住”。其中,“-cle”是一个常见的名词后缀。
历史背景:shackle在文献中首次出现的记录可以追溯到15世纪,通常用来描述奴隶或囚犯被束缚的状态。它在许多文学作品中被用作象征自由与束缚的对比。
课本:在的英语教材中,shackle可能出现在初中或高中英语课本中,通常与历史或社会问题相关。在牛津和美国的教材中,shackle也常用于描述历史(如奴隶制)或社会问题(如人权)。
正式与非正式语境:
特殊场合:
The prisoners were forced to wear shackles on their ankles.
Fear can shackle your potential if you let it.
The novel describes how society tries to shackle individualism.
He felt shackled by the expectations of his family.
The artist used chains and shackles in his installation to symbolize oppression.
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音标记忆法:shackle的音标为/ˈʃækəl/,可以分解为“shack”(像小屋)+“le”(轻)联想为“轻松逃离小屋”,帮助记忆其束缚的含义。
词根记忆法:shackle由“shack”(束缚)和后缀“-le”组成,可以通过其相似词根联想到与束缚、限制相关的词汇。
[[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。