strait-jacket

英 [st'reɪtdʒ'ækɪt] 美 [st'reɪtdʒ'ækɪt]

• 约束衣

英英释义

名词 straitjacket:

1. anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines

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

经典引文

• I did write poems but always in some strait-jacket form: sonnets, rondels, triolets.

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