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

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。
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。
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。
But these reforms conducted within the straitjacket of monetary union with Germany are causing political and economic turmoil.
但这类改革因与德国在一个货币联盟而受到严格约束却引发了政治和经济领域的动荡。
I was bound up in a straitjacket.
我被用紧身衣绑了起来。
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 if the economic straitjacket stays tight, says a senior European diplomat, "in the long term I think the situation will be disastrous."
如果经济束缚依然过紧，一个欧洲高级外交官表示，“我认为这样的局势长此以往会引发灾难。”
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 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。