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Handcuffs are a pair of metal rings joined by a short chain or a rigid bar. They lock around a prisoner's wrists to hold the hands together. Police and guards use them. The word is almost always plural: we say handcuffs, or a pair of handcuffs, much more than a . They open with a key. Though actually, training cuffs may open more easily, and people also use the word in pictures of speech — in handcuffs meaning not free to act.
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組成Recorded from 1775, from hand + cuff (the end of a shirtsleeve). Old English had handcops, from hand + cops (fetter, chains), and that may have had some influence, but because so many centuries sit between, the modern word is generally treated as a new making of the two English pieces.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
handcuffsnoun詞源 1/ˈhændˌkʌfs/
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A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge.
- It was the sergeant who had spoken to me, and he was now looking round at the company, with his handcuffs invitingly extended towards them in his right hand, and his left on my shoulder.
- Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.
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Any abstract constraint, such as rules, regulations, or lack of resources.
- They complained that their rules of engagement were handcuffs that guaranteed counterproductivity.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。