trammel sth
及物动词，宾语常为创造力、自由、发展等抽象名词；语体较正式。
Rigid rules can trammel creativity.
死板的规定会束缚创造力。
缠住；网住；使纠缠(如网中)；限制；束缚；羁绊；拘束
To confine, hamper, or restrict someone or something.
使纠缠(如网中)
To entangle, as in a net.
限制；束缚；羁绊
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
一般现在时
This rule trammels creative expression.
这条规则束缚创造性表达。
一般过去时
The bureaucracy trammelled progress.
官僚机构束缚了进步。
present participle
They are trammelling the investigation.
他们正在阻碍调查。
规则动词，过去式和过去分词为trammelled
The new regulations trammel small businesses with endless paperwork.
新规定用没完没了的文书工作束缚小企业。
用法提示：trammel 作动词，表示“束缚、限制”，后接宾语 small businesses。
She felt trammelled by the strict rules of the training program.
她感到被培训项目的严格规定所束缚。
用法提示：trammelled 是 trammel 的过去分词，此处用于被动语态表示“被束缚”。
Don't let old habits trammel your creativity.
别让旧习惯束缚你的创造力。
用法提示：trammel 作及物动词，表示“阻碍、限制”，后接名词 creativity。
及物动词，宾语常为创造力、自由、发展等抽象名词；语体较正式。
Rigid rules can trammel creativity.
死板的规定会束缚创造力。
常用被动语态，用 by 引出造成束缚的事物；英式拼写为 trammelled，美式拼写为 trammeled。
The workers were trammelled by endless paperwork.
工人们被没完没了的文书工作束缚住了。
grammar · medium
易错句子The new regulation trammel innovation.
正确表达The new regulation trammels innovation.
一般现在时中，第三人称单数主语（the new regulation）后的动词要加 -s；trammel 的第三人称单数是 trammels。
grammar · medium
易错句子The fish trammelled in the net.
正确表达The fish was trammelled in the net.
这里表示‘鱼被网住’，trammel 是及物动词，需用被动语态 be + 过去分词；过去分词 trammelled 前不能省略 was。
grammar · medium
易错句子The new law trammel our business last year.
正确表达The new law trammelled our business last year.
last year 表示过去时间，谓语要用一般过去时；trammel 的过去式是 trammelled，不能用原形。
拼写和读音与 trammel 接近，但 trample 指用脚踩或粗暴践踏，强调物理动作；trammel 指像网一样缠住、限制自由，多作书面语。
两者都可表示阻碍，但 hamper 多指困难或障碍使行动变慢、变难，常与 progress、efforts 搭配；trammel 更强调缠住、限制自由，语气更重且更书面。
shackle 原指给犯人戴镣铐，引申为用强力限制自由，常含压迫意味；trammel 的束缚义更偏“缠住、使受限”，不一定含镣铐意象。
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