double bind

英 [ˌdʌbl ˈbaɪnd]

美 [ˌdʌbl ˈbaɪnd]

n.  两难境地

牛津词典

noun

• 两难境地
  a situation in which it is difficult to choose what to do because whatever you choose will have negative results

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 两难境地;进退维谷
  If you arein a double bind, you are in a very difficult situation, because whatever decision you make will have bad results.
  1. Women are caught in a double bind, marginalised in the community if they are not wives and mothers, under excessive pressure to be perfect if they are.
     女性陷入了两难境地，如果她不为人妻为人母就会被社会边缘化，如果她为人妻为人母就会承受成为完美的妻子和母亲的巨大压力。

英英释义

noun

• (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma

双语例句

• CONCLUSION: The concept of double bind is created in certain historical situation and it contributes to explain the schizophrenia and mental disorder.
  结论：双重束缚的提出有其特定的历史背景，它对精神分裂、精神错乱的形成有一定的解释力。
• The headteacher is caught in a double bind because whether she expels the boy or lets him off, she still gets blamed.
  校长陷入了进退两难之境，因为无论她将男孩开除，还是免予处罚，都会受到谴责。
• Repeated experience. The double bind is a recurrent theme in the experience of the victim and as such cannot be constituted as a single traumatic experience.
  重复经历。双重境地对受害人来说会反复出现，从而不构成单一创伤型经历。
• Explanation of the double bind
  双重束缚解析
• DATA SYNTHESIS: Double bind is created by Bateson on base of "deutero-learning" and "Russellian paradox".
  资料综合：双重束缚是Bateson结合再学习和Russellian矛盾两个概念提出的。
• Bateson and his co-workers have made a plausible case for viewing the double bind as an important causative factor in the genesis of schizophrenia ( 17).
  他和同僚有一个言之成理的说法，认为进退两难是精神分裂症的重要成因。
• Double bind is a communicative situation where a person receives different or contradictory messages.
  双重境地是一个沟通情景。此时，一个人获得的是不同或彼此矛盾的信息。
• Studies about double bind in management, culture and moral;
  管理、文化和道德中双重束缚的研究。
• The economy is in a double bind.
  西班牙经济已经陷入了双重束缚。
• OBJECTIVE: This article introduced how Bateson created the concept of double bind, described the character of double bind, and discussed the positive effect on psychological therapy and the problem of double bind model.
  目的：介绍了Bateson提出双重束缚概念的过程，阐述双重束缚概念的特征，并且论述了这一概念对心理治疗起到的积极作用以及概念本身存在的问题。