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

• These companies are determined to keep a stranglehold on the banana industry
  这些公司决心要垄断香蕉业。
• Progress has been less marked in inland waterways and coastal shipping, where users complain about the stranglehold of a few state-owned monopolies on operations.
  但内陆水路和沿海航运方面的进步不那么显著，在这两个领域，用户抱怨少数国有企业的垄断制约了行业的发展。
• 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。
• Regulators and investors in the UK stirred an international debate on the big four amid concern that their stranglehold was having a pernicious effect on choice and quality in the audit market, and creating significant risks to financial stability.
  英国的监管机构和投资者激起了一场关于四大会计公司的国际性辩论。人们担心，四大会计公司的势力对审计市场的选择和质量产生了有害影响，对金融稳定造成了巨大风险。
• The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade.
  新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。
• Microsoft managed to leverage its strength in PC operating systems into a stranglehold over the word-processing and spreadsheet applications.
  微软就设法利用其在PC操作系统方面的强势，在文字处理和表单领域牢牢控制着市场。
• 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。
• The dark is faltering and its once-mighty stranglehold on your world is slipping.
  黑暗势力现在步履蹒跚，他们曾经强大的对你们世界控制力正在滑落。
• Even worse, it no longer has a stranglehold on it managers, a growing number of which are now letting employees bring their device of choice to work.
  更糟糕的是，RIM无法再对IT经理们施加任何限制，越来越多的IT经理开始允许员工上班时携带自己喜欢的设备。
• Reformers have argued that their stranglehold on the oil sector raises costs for consumers, crowds out potentially more competitive groups, and allows them to hijack policy to support their interests.
  主张改革的人士认为，这些集团霸占石油部门，提高了消费者的成本，排挤了潜在更具竞争力的企业，并且让它们出于自身利益绑架政策。