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to restrain ; to hamper
제한하다, 억제하다 ; 방해하다
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In his pursuit of the Nobel Prize for physics, Professor Jenkins was fettered by his near-total ignorance of the subject.
젠킨스 교수는 노벨 물리학상을 받기 원했지만, 그 연구과제에 관해 거의 완전히 무지했기 때문에 수상을 하지 못했다.
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To be unfettered is to be unrestrained or free of hinderances. When his parents went to Europe for a few months, Jimmy invited all his friends for some unfettered partying in the empty house.
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A fetter is literally a chain (attached to the foot) that is used to restrain a criminal or, for that matter, an innocent person. A figurative fetter can be anything that hampers or restrains someone. The housewife's young children were the fetters that prevented her from pursing her love affair with the washing-machine repairman.