straitjacket

英['streɪtdʒækɪt] 美['streɪtdʒækɪt]
  • n. 紧身衣;束缚物
  • v. 约束
  • =straightjacket.
straitjacketed straitjacketed straitjacketing straitjackets
Noun:
  1. anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines;

    "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"
    "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"

  2. 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

1. Occasionally his behaviour became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
有时他的行为会如此失控,以至他不得不被穿上一件约束衣。

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2. That's why they are a straitjacket.
那就是为什么它们是紧身衣。

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3. 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。

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4. 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。

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5. And it doesn't necessarily put you in the straitjacket you seem to fear.
而且这份债也不一定会把你套进你似乎很担心落入的枷锁里面。

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6. One was escaping from a straitjacket while hanging upside down from a building.
其中一项是在他倒吊于某栋建筑之际,要一边挣脱身上穿的束衣。

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7. 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。

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8. The straitjacket is applied not to the outside of the body but to the inside of the mind.
束缚,是不适用的境外的机构,而是内部的想法。

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9. 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。

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10. The jury will have to be forced into an “intellectual straitjacket”, one law professor suggested.
一位法律教授说,陪审团将会陷入“左右为难的处境”。

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11. A niche, which can be helpful in getting a product off the ground, can soon become a straitjacket.
市场的细分虽然最初有助于让产品取得进展,但很快就会成为阻碍。

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12. Different weather, different wines, all to be molded to the same-yes, I'm going to say it-straitjacket.
不同的气候,不同的酒,所有一切最后将被制成完全相同——是的,我认为这是一种约束。

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13. What the crisis really demonstrates, however, is the dangers of putting yourself in a policy straitjacket.
然而,这次危机真正显示的是束缚在政策锁链上的危险。

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14. 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。

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15. Britain linked the misery of the 1920s to the gold straitjacket and its subsequent recovery to being freed from it.
英国则认为其二十世纪二十年代的不景气是由于金本位制的束缚,而其后的经济复苏则是由于脱离了这一制度。

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16. The real point, though, is that fitting a dozen complex stories into a single analytical straitjacket is a nonsense.
尽管关键在于,将一打复杂故事塞入单一的分析情境本身是毫无意义的。

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17. Hangzhou Gerui Tools Co., Ltd. China in the straitjacket tool development, production and sales of professional firms.
杭州格锐工具有限公司,是中国从事金刚工具研发、生产和销售的专业公司。

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18. Language is a dynamic entity. In a sense it's alive, and it fights tooth and nail against being forced into a straitjacket.
语言是个有生命力的实体,从某种意义上讲,它的确是活的,并竭力反抗着任何束缚。

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19. 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。

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20. 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。

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21. The moon struggled in its straitjacket: a tremor like that of an earthquake caused avalanches of empty cans to slide down from the mountain of refuse.
月亮与它的紧身衣搏斗着:发出一阵阵的震动,就像地震引起空的罐子从垃圾山上滑下来造成的震动那样。

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22. Mr Cox muses about breaking out of the age straitjacket to mix eight-, ten-, and 15-year-old stock under a label such as “head distiller’s choice”.
考克斯先生则冥思苦想,把8,10,和15年的存酒混合,标上“最佳酒厂的选择”等商标,来打破酒龄的束缚。

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23. The web of direct and indirect manipulation is a straitjacket that binds life and necessarily limits the ways it can appear to itself and structure itself.
这张由直接或者间接的操纵组成的网,就是束缚生活的一件紧身衣,约束了生活本来可以呈现和构建自身的方式。

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24. The web of direct and indirect manipulation is a straitjacket that binds life and necessarily limits the ways it can appear to itself and structure itself.
这张由直接或者间接的操纵组成的网,就是束缚生活的一件紧身衣,约束了生活本来可以呈现和构建自身的方式。

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Beijing may have been put in a straitjacket for the Games.
      北京就像是为了奥运会穿上了紧身衣。
    2. I refuse to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.
      我不会被任何观念所束缚。

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