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

• 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。
• No one benefits if the financial sector is restrained in a regulatory straitjacket that makes structural change impossible and abolishes growth and innovation.
  如果金融部门穿上监管的紧身衣，变得束手束脚，使得结构性改革成为不可能，并破坏增长和创新，那么没有人能从中受益。
• 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。
• And a straitjacket to pin it on.
  应该给他穿上紧身衣。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。