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 company is now free from the straitjacket of government regulation.
  这家公司如今不用受政府管制的约束了。
• 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？
• That's why they are a straitjacket.
  那就是为什么它们是紧身衣。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some economists believe capping budget deficits at3 percent of GDP and total public debt at60 percent of GDP acts more as a straitjacket for the economy rather than as an anchor for price stability.
  条约上把财政赤字的上限设为GDP的百分之三，把公共债务总额的上限设为GDP的百分之六十。而一些经济学家认为，这只能限制经济发展而不能起到稳定物价的作用。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。