单词	straitjacket
释义	straitjacket /ˈstreɪtdʒakɪt / (also straightjacket) noun 1A strong garment with long sleeves which can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one straitjacket.... A quick strong jerk and the straitjacket burst up high into the air. It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer. 1.1A severe restriction on freedom of action, development, or expression: the government is operating in an economic straitjacket... We must break through the mental straitjacket and realize that another world is possible. We've got the government ordering us to zip up our mental straitjackets in public. We have to be careful, as you would understand, putting straitjackets on either judges or counsel. verb (straitjackets, straitjacketing, straitjacketed) [with object] 1Restrain with a straitjacket.We have been locked in seclusion, placed in restraints, chemically and physically straitjacketed, lobotomized, shocked and beaten because we protested too much.... In terms of the film's representations of Billie, straitjacketed and screaming, she is presented metaphorically as a swaddling baby as she cries out for care. 1.1Impose severely restrictive measures on (a person or activity): the treaty should not be used as a tool to straitjacket international trade... His argument is simply that there is a delicate balance between being prepared, and being straightjacketed. Interestingly, the employees do not work in a rigid, straitjacketed fashion. The façade never quite resolves its identity crisis, and the rigid design straitjackets other intimations of a hidden life. Usage See strait-laced (usage)
随便看	pauperdom pauperess pauper funeral pauper grave pauperism pauperization pauperize pauperous pauper's funeral pauper's grave paupiette Pauranic Pauranik Pauranika pauraque paurometabolous pauropod Pauropoda pauropodan pausal Pausanias pausation pause pause button pause control

英语词典包含243303条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。