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 attempt to save money placed the company in a straitjacket that stifled its natural development.
  试图省钱，结果却给公司套上一具窒息其自然发展的桎梏。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That's why they are a straitjacket.
  那就是为什么它们是紧身衣。