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

复数：straitjackets　

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
  1. the straitjacket of taxation
     纳税的束缚

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.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. ...the ideological straitjacket of religious fundamentalism.
     原教旨主义对意识形态的束缚

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
  Synonym:straightjacket
• anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
  1. they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket
  2. the government is operating in an economic straitjacket

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 straitjacket of bureaucratic paperwork. Bureaucrats, engaging in trade led to tradespeople's bureaucratization and further caused tradespeople's intervening with political affairs.
  官僚文牍主义的束缚官僚经商导致了商人的官僚化，进而出现了商人干政的局面。
• 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。
• 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。
• He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.
  他拒绝接受任何意商形态的束缚。
• We don't have to fit him for any straitjacket.
  我们不必这样难为他。
• MSCI defines who is a member of which club and most investors are obliged to live within this straitjacket whether they like it or not and whether it fits with changing global economic realities or not.
  MSCI划定某个国家属于某个俱乐部，大多数投资者只知道接受这种划定，无论他们喜欢与否，也无论这种划定是否符合不断变化的全球经济现实。
• 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。