vt.束缚,加枷锁;妨碍,阻碍;给…上手铐;[电]在…装绝缘器;
n.束缚;羁绊;枷锁;镣铐;
例句:
...the chains that were shackling his legs...
铐着他双腿的链子
...a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past.
决定摆脱过去殖民束缚的国家
They finally managed to throw off the shackles of colonialism.
他们终于挣脱了殖民主义的枷锁。