straitjacket
straitjacket 英 ['streɪtdʒækɪt] 美 ['stretdʒækɪt]
n. 紧身衣 vt. 约束（等于strait-jacket）
名词复数:straitjackets
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- n. 紧身衣
- vt. 约束（等于strait-jacket）
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1. 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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2. While this arrangement had something going for it in the way of security, it often became something of a straitjacket, never allowing for room to grow or change, never providing for new excitement.
尽管从安全的角度考虑，这样的安排也有一些可取之处，但常常会变成一种约束，绝对无法虑及发展或者改变的空间，也绝对无法提供新的兴奋点。
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3. 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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