straitjacket
英 [ˈstreɪtdʒækɪt]
美 [ˈstreɪtdʒækɪt]
n. 约束衣,紧身衣(有时用以束缚精神病患者); 束缚; 桎梏; 约束
BNC.20096 / COCA.22431
牛津词典
noun
- 约束衣,紧身衣(有时用以束缚精神病患者)
a piece of clothing like a jacket with long arms which are tied to prevent the person wearing it from behaving violently. Straitjackets are sometimes used to control people who are mentally ill. - 束缚;桎梏;约束
a thing that stops sth from growing or developing- the straitjacket of taxation
纳税的束缚
- the straitjacket of taxation
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (用以约束行为狂暴者的)约束服,紧身衣
Astraitjacketis a special jacket used to tie the arms of a violent person tightly around their body.- Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
他的行为偶尔会变得如此失控,不得不给他穿上约束服。
- Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
- N-COUNT 约束;桎梏;束缚
If you describe an idea or a situation as astraitjacket, you mean that it is very limited and restricting.- The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
国家课程设置必须是指导性的,而不是约束性的。 - ...the ideological straitjacket of religious fundamentalism.
原教旨主义对意识形态的束缚
- The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
英英释义
noun
- a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
- they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket
- the government is operating in an economic straitjacket
双语例句
- Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
他的行为偶尔会变得如此失控,不得不给他穿上约束服。 - That's why they are a straitjacket.
那就是为什么它们是紧身衣。 - He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.
他拒绝接受任何意商形态的束缚。 - And a straitjacket to pin it on.
应该给他穿上紧身衣。 - In order to circumvent the straitjacket of national wage rates, employers in many cities offer non-pecuniary rewards to their workers.
为了避免全国工资率的约束,许多城市的雇主不以金钱的形式付给工人报酬。 - I've often met people who are terrified you know, in a straitjacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything than fail.
我经常遇到害怕的人你们知道的,缩在自己做的紧身衣里因为他们宁愿做任何事情也不愿失败。 - But if the economic straitjacket stays tight, says a senior European diplomat, "in the long term I think the situation will be disastrous."
如果经济束缚依然过紧,一个欧洲高级外交官表示,“我认为这样的局势长此以往会引发灾难。” - Having seen finance wreak havoc, the temptation will be to bind it in a regulatory straitjacket.
由于已经目睹金融系统的大破坏,因此金融的诱惑将被严格管治。 - I was bound up in a straitjacket.
我被用紧身衣绑了起来。 - One of the things that keeps the party in its straitjacket is the tea-party movement.
让共和党陷入这种困境的一个原因就是茶党运动。