1the shackles of somethingliteraryTIE the limits put on your freedom and happiness by something, especially a particular form of government – used to show disapproval 某事物的枷锁[束缚,桎梏]〔含贬义〕
nThey finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.
shackle• It was as though she'd been let loose from shackles she hadn't even known she'd been wearing.• They put my grandson in shackles once on a little drug charge.• Every few years the industry begins a campaign, backed in medicaljournals, for release from its shackles.• Emboldened by what she saw her friend get away with, Diana felt able to loosen the shackles a little.• And to Return, free of the shackles of humanphysicalembodiment.• These programs were designed to remove the shackles so that black people could reach the starting line on an equal footing.