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To hold someone back so that they are not free to move, grow, or do what they want. As a verb it is formal and quite rare — you find it in serious writing about law, , and art: rules that trammel free speech, a contract that trammels a company. It almost always describes limits placed on freedom itself rather than on a physical body. The word began as a noun: a trammel was a fishing net, and later a hobble — a rope tied round a horse's legs so it could not run away. That picture still lives inside the verb: something is tangled or tied so it cannot move properly. In modern English you will honestly meet the negative form far more often than the plain verb — '' (free from any limit) is common in journalism: power, joy. The plural noun 'trammels' survives too, in phrases like 'the trammels of tradition', meaning the ties that hold you back. If a student the plain verb correctly, that is a small victory; most native speakers only ever say ''.
束縛、限制（多指限制自由或發展；名詞原指漁網、絆馬索）
組成From Latin tri- ('three') + macula ('mesh, hole in a net') — a net made of three layers, which came into English through Old French tramail as a word for a fishing net, then a hobble for a horse, then any tie that stops you moving freely.
同家族的字
- immaculatefrom the same macula, 'spot' — im- 'not' + macula, so 'without a single spot'
- untrammelledun- + trammelled: not tied down, completely free
原始詞典資料11 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。
Trammelname
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A surname.
trammelnoun/ˈtræməl/
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Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- [They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract.
- The men who came here were able to throw off all the trammels of tradition and established doctrine.
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A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
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A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- 1633, The tuck carrieth a like fashion , save that it is narrower meshed , and ( therefore scarce lawful ) with a long bunt in the midst : the trammel differeth not much from the shape of this bunt, and serveth to such use as the wear and haking.
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A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height.
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Braids or plaits of hair.
- Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.
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A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAn instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
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A beam compass.
trammelverb/ˈtræməl/
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To entangle, as in a net.
- the scarce-snatched hours Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: — Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
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To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
- In their vote, you would get something of some value, at least, however small; but in the other case, only the trammelled judgment of an individual, of no significance, be it which way it might.
- Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.
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。