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trammel/ˈtræm(ə)l/ n. & v.●n. 1 (usu. in pl. 通常用复数) an impediment to free movement; a hindrance 拘束，束缚；妨碍 the trammels of domesticity 家庭生活的束缚 2 a triple dragnet for fish, which are trapped in a pocket formed when they attempt to swim through 鱼网 3 an instrument for drawing ellipses etc. with a bar sliding in upright grooves 椭圆规，长颈规 4 a beam-compass 横木规 5 US a hook in a fireplace for a kettle etc. [美] (壁炉里挂壶等炊具的)钩，铁钩 ●v. tr. (trammelled, trammelling; US [美] trammeled, trammeling) confine or hamper with or as if with trammels 束缚；妨碍；限制 [Middle English (in sense 2) via Old French tramail from medieval Latin tramaculum, tremaculum, perhaps formed as TRI- + macula (MAIL2): later history uncertain] |