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- （一般作trammels） poetic/literary a restriction or impediment to someone's freedom of action〈诗/文〉约束, 束缚, 限制, 妨碍：
we will forge our own future, free from the trammels of materialism.
我们要摆脱物质主义的束缚, 锻造自己的未来。
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- （亦作trammel net）a dragnet consisting of three layers of netting, designed so that a fish entering through one of the largemeshed outer sections will push part of the finer-meshed central section through the large meshes on the further side, forming a pocket in which the fish is trapped渔网。
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- an instrument consisting of a board with two grooves intersecting at right angles, in which the two ends of a beam compass can slide to draw an ellipse椭圆规。
- ORIGIN: early 18th cent.: so named because the motion of the beam is 'restricted' by the grooves.
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- a beam compass长臂圆规。
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- US a hook in a fireplace for a kettle〈美〉壁炉锅钩。
(trammelled, trammelling; <美> trammeled, trammeling) with obj.
- deprive of freedom of action束缚, 妨碍, 限制：
those less trammelled by convention than himself.
那些过多受自己而非习俗束缚的人。
词源
late Middle English (in sense 2)： from Old French tramail, from a medieval Latin variant of trimaculum, perhaps from Latin tri- 'three' + macula 'mesh'.