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straitjacket

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ˈstreɪtdʒækɪt
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释义

n. 紧身衣 vt. 约束(等于strait-jacket) [ 复数 straitjackets 第三人称单数 straitjackets 现在分词 straitjacketing 过去式 straitjacketed 过去分词 straitjacketed ]

例句

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。
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。
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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"Form follows function" had become modernity's ambitious manifestoand detrimental straitjacket,as it liberated architecture from the decorative,
But to me, "adapt all the time" means something deeper, too.We have to break parents out of this straitjacketthat the only ideas we can try at home
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