stranglehold

英 [ˈstræŋɡlhəʊld]

美 [ˈstræŋɡlhoʊld]

n.  掐脖子; 卡脖子; 压制; 束缚

Collins.1 / BNC.20000 / COCA.21587

牛津词典

noun

• 掐脖子；卡脖子
  a strong hold around sb's neck that makes it difficult for them to breathe
• 压制；束缚
  complete control over sth that makes it impossible for it to grow or develop well
  1. The company now had a stranglehold on the market.
     这家公司现在垄断了市场。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 控制;约束;钳制
  To have astranglehold onsomething means to have control over it and prevent it from being free or from developing.
  1. These companies are determined to keep a stranglehold on the banana industry...
     这些公司决心要垄断香蕉业。
  2. The troops are tightening their stranglehold on the city...
     部队正在加强对该市的控制。
  3. To succeed, the new paper will need to break the stranglehold of the printing unions.
     要想获得成功的话，这份新报纸就要冲破印刷业联合会的钳制。

英英释义

noun

• a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
• complete power over a person or situation
  1. corporations have a stranglehold on the media
  2. the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public
  Synonym:chokeholdthrottlehold

双语例句

• The big advantage of conventional publishers, and the main problem for anyone who wants to follow an alternative route, is the stranglehold of distribution.
  传统出版商的巨大优势，也就是想要另辟蹊径者的主要问题，就是销售瓶颈的突破。
• Reforms which loosened the stranglehold of the upper classes.
  对上层阶级放松束缚的一些改革措施。
• Bottom line: without Unions big company executives will continue to increase their stranglehold on American poor and middle-cla ss and offshore jobs-just as they have been doing since Reagan.
  结果是：没有工会，大公司的高管们，还是会继续束缚美国穷苦人、中产阶级和海外工作者，就跟他们自里根时代起一直做的那样。
• He wants to undo the stranglehold he says the teachers unions have on politics, which in turn prevent teachers from becoming more accountable.
  他希望解除他所说的教师工会在政治问题的枷锁，因为后者反过来压制了教师责任感。
• But the US Seventh Fleet's role in policing strategic waters such as the Malacca Straits, through which 80 per cent of China's imported oil flows, would also give Washington a strategic stranglehold in case of conflict over Taiwan.
  但一旦爆发台海冲突，美国第七舰队在辖制马六甲海峡等战略水域的作用，将使美国具备战略遏制力。中国80%的进口石油需要通过马六甲海峡。
• The imminent collapse of the monetary system will produce amazing changes that will free all countries and peoples from the debt that had such a stranglehold on their lives.
  即将来临的金融系统的崩溃将产生奇妙的转变，那将解放所有的国家和人民，从那紧紧束缚住他们的债务中解脱出来。
• The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade.
  新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。
• The troops are tightening their stranglehold on the city
  部队正在加强对该市的控制。
• They have faced criticism for making big profits because of a stranglehold on financing channels.
  人们一直在批评它们通过垄断融资渠道获取巨额利润。
• Chinese real estate conglomerate Dalian Wanda is teaming up with two of China's largest internet companies in an$ 814m ecommerce joint venture aimed at loosening Alibaba's stranglehold on the country's booming ecommerce market, the FT's Charles Clover writes.
  中国房地产集团万达集团（Wanda）正联手中国最大的两家互联网企业，共同投资8.14亿美元设立一家电子商务企业，希望借此打破阿里巴巴（Alibaba）对中国电子商务市场的统领地位。