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

• You put on an emotional straitjacket or your brain can't function.
  你要完全控制情绪，否则脑子会无法运作。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I was bound up in a straitjacket.
  我被用紧身衣绑了起来。
• 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。
• 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 how can Greece accomplish this within the euro straitjacket?
  然而，裹着欧元这件紧身衣，希腊怎么才能够做到这一点？
• He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.
  他拒绝接受任何意商形态的束缚。
• 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。