时间: 2025-04-26 11:19:34
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 11:19:34
字面意思:
Shackle的字面含义是“枷锁”或“束缚”,通常指用于限制身体活动的金属环或链条。
定义:Shackle指的是一种限制或束缚的工具,通常用于阻止自由移动,或比喻地指代任何形式的压制或限制。
词性:
名词 (noun)、动词 (verb)
词源分析:
该词源自古英语“sceacla”,意指“枷锁”,与古法语“esclavager”(意为“奴役”)有关。它的构成部分“shackle”中的“shack”源于“shackled”或“shackling”,意味着“束缚”或“限制”。
历史背景:
Shackle首次记录于15世纪,通常用来描述奴隶或犯罪分子被限制自由的状态。在文学作品中,shackle常用于象征压迫和限制。
课本:
该词可能出现在**高中英语教材中,以及牛津和美国的中学教材中,尤其是在讨论社会问题、历史或文学作品时。
正式与非正式语境:
特殊场合:
在法律领域,shackle可以指对罪犯的限制措施;在文学中,可能用来描绘角色的内心挣扎,例如在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》中,角色的“shackles”象征着社会的压迫。
The prisoner was forced to wear shackles on his ankles.
(囚犯被迫在脚踝上戴上枷锁。)
She felt shackled by the expectations of her family.
(她感到被家人的期望束缚。)
The company’s policies can sometimes feel like shackles for creativity.
(公司的政策有时会让创造力感到像是被束缚。)
The historical novel describes the shackles of slavery in vivid detail.
(这部历史小说生动地描述了奴隶制的枷锁。)
He was determined to break free from the shackles of his past.
(他决心要摆脱过去的束缚。)
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音标记忆法:
通过音标学*,将“shackle”发音为 /ˈʃæk.əl/。可以通过重复发音和联想图像来增强记忆,比如想象一个被限制的人的场景,帮助记忆其含义。
通过这些方法和信息,学*者可以更深入地理解和掌握“shackle”这个词的含义和使用场景。
[[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。