strait-waistcoat
strait-waistcoat — 名詞
1. a stiff coat with very long sleeves that fasten behind the back, once used to ke
拘束衣
長袖綁於背後、限制手臂的舊式束縛衣
a stiff coat with very long sleeves that fasten behind the back, once used to keep a person from moving their arms — for instance a patient in an old hospital or a prisoner who might turn violent
In the old mental hospital, nurses once locked violent patients into a strait-waistcoat.
在那家舊式精神病院裡，護士曾把暴力的病人鎖進拘束衣中。
collocation: lock someone into a strait-waistcoat
Doctors fastened the long sleeves of the strait-waistcoat tightly behind the man's back.
醫師將拘束衣的長袖在那名男子的背後緊緊綁住。
shows the long sleeves that fasten behind the back
Felix wrote a novel about a prisoner who escaped from a heavy strait-waistcoat.
Felix 寫了一部小說，講述一名囚犯掙脫沉重拘束衣逃走的故事。
The museum guide explained how a strait-waistcoat kept a frightened patient from hurting himself.
博物館導覽員解說拘束衣如何防止一名受驚的病人傷害自己。
pattern: kept + object + from + -ing
Astrid found an old strait-waistcoat with worn leather straps in the attic.
Astrid 在閣樓裡發現一件皮革綁帶已磨損的舊拘束衣。
- put someone in a strait-waistcoat
- struggle against a strait-waistcoat
- straitjacket
the standard modern term; 'strait-waistcoat' is the older British form
- camisole
dated term for the same restraining garment, used in the history of psychiatry
用法筆記
Chiefly historical and British; modern English uses 'straitjacket' for the same garment. You will mostly meet 'strait-waistcoat' in older texts, museum labels, or writing about the history of psychiatry.
常見錯誤
同根字
- straitjacket名詞C1
- waistcoat名詞B2
- strait名詞C2
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- leather straps
- long sleeves
常用片語
- put someone in a strait-waistcoat
- struggle out of a strait-waistcoat
介系詞搭配
- in a strait-waistcoat
- into a strait-waistcoat