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

• 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。
• The programs of the private universities are not tied to the straitjacket of a statewide, uniform curriculum.
  这些私立大学的教学大纲不受全国范围内统一的课程设置的限制。
• And this collapse, in turn, had a lot to do with the euro, which trapped Greece in an economic straitjacket.
  而希腊经济的崩溃，也与欧元有关&它把希腊拴在了一个经济牢笼里。
• That's why they are a straitjacket.
  那就是为什么它们是紧身衣。
• 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。
• 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。
• Joe Barton, a Republican congressman and global-warming sceptic, says it will put the American economy in a straitjacket.
  乔•巴顿，共和党国会议员，全球气候变暖怀疑论者，称这将给美国经济穿上紧身衣。
• 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。
• 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。”