英语词源
- strait-jacket (n.)
- also straitjacket, 1795 as a type of restraint for lunatics, from strait (adj.) + jacket (n.); earlier in same sense was strait-waistcoat (1753). As a verb from 1863. Related: Strait-jacketed.
权威例句
- 1. He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.
- 他被指无趣乏味，古板守旧，心胸狭窄。
- 2. Yemen commands the strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.
- 也门完全控制着红海南端的海峡。
- 3. Ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island.
- 渡船定时穿越狭窄的海峡驶向海岛。
- 4. The ship passed through the strait between two islands.
- 船从两岛之间的海峡穿过.
- 5. The Bering StraIt'separates Asia and America.
- 白令海峡隔开了亚洲和美洲.