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英语单词 stricture
英美音标 英 ['strɪktʃə(r)] 美 ['strɪktʃər]
中文释义 n.苛评;非难;限制;[医]狭窄
英语例句 (1) If countercurrent is long-standing, esophagus will form scar and stricture finally.
中文例句 (1) 若反流长期存在,食管最终将会形成瘢痕和狭窄。
vocabulary简明 One meaning of stricture is a nasty criticism, while the other is a sharp contraction of a tube or canal in the body. Either meaning can mean great pain to the person experiencing the stricture.
vocabulary扩展 The noun stricture finds its roots in the Late Latin word strictūra, which came from the stem stringere, "to draw tightly." You might remember that meaning by its relationship with the word constrict, meaning "to tighten or draw in." The additional meaning, that of “a critical remark,” is often used in the plural form — like "the critical strictures against cheating."
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]指摘;非难;反对 You can use strictures to refer to severe criticism or disapproval of something.
  [usu pl]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • ...Mencken's strictures on the 1920s, with its self-righteous prohibition on alcohol and unconventional ideas...

    门肯对19世纪20年代自以为是的禁酒令和对非传统思想的禁锢的指摘

  • This satirical address was a thinly disguised stricture against the doctrine of the rights of man.

    这一充满讽刺意味的演说几乎是对人权主义不加掩饰的指责。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]限制;约束;束缚 You can refer to things that limit what you can do as strictures of a particular kind.
  [usu pl]
  [mainly FORMAL 主正式]
  • Your goals are hindered by financial strictures.

    你的目标受制于经济困难。

  • ...the power of the imagination to subdue the strictures of daily life.

    缓解日常生活束缚的想象力

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