1. The shackles would fall by themselves if the urge that drives the present became more generally aware of its aim. 如果驱动现实的强烈欲望变得更加普遍地在意它的目标，那么，这些束缚将自己瓦解。
2. Human society entered the 19th century, as modern Western industrial civilization development, feudal society and culture of the human spirit gradually loosened the shackles. 人类社会进入19世纪后，随着西方近代工业文明的发展，封建社会文化对人类精神的束缚逐渐松动。
3. In their efforts to free China of its socialist shackles in the 1980s and early 90s, Deng and his supporters gave lower-level officials the leeway, and the obligation, to increase economic growth. 在1980年到90年代早期，邓和他的支持者为将中国从社会主义的枷锁中解脱出来发展经济，给予了下层官员一定的自由度和相应的责任。
