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
- Although it was not all bad, the lawplaced a straitjacket on companies and their auditors which was so tight thatit has since had to be loosened.
虽然这并不全是坏事，但是法律给企业和审计师穿了一个太紧的紧身衣，以至于现在不得不放松一点。 - The company is now free from the straitjacket of government regulation.
这家公司如今不用受政府管制的约束了。 - 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。 - This is going to decode the tragedy consciousness of the female images from the aspects of the old conventional straitjacket of Chinese tradition, shackles of desire and the delusion of fatality, which can contribute to the good understanding to Zhang Ailing's novels.
从传统的束缚、欲望的枷锁、宿命的虚无等三个方面解读张爱玲笔下的女性形象的悲剧意识，有助于理解张爱玲小说。 - 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 new playwrights broke out of the old conventional straitjacket.
新的剧作家们冲破了老传统的束缚。 - Dean carried out tricks by breaking out of a straitjacket while dangling hundred of meters above the ground and successfully achieved it with admiration of audience.
最终，在观众的赞叹声中，迪安成功挣脱身上的束缚，安全回到地面。 - 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。 - But these reforms conducted within the straitjacket of monetary union with Germany are causing political and economic turmoil.
但这类改革因与德国在一个货币联盟而受到严格约束却引发了政治和经济领域的动荡。 - Some economists believe capping budget deficits at3 percent of GDP and total public debt at60 percent of GDP acts more as a straitjacket for the economy rather than as an anchor for price stability.
条约上把财政赤字的上限设为GDP的百分之三，把公共债务总额的上限设为GDP的百分之六十。而一些经济学家认为，这只能限制经济发展而不能起到稳定物价的作用。