英:[kənˈstrɪktɪd]
美:[ kənˈstrɪktɪd]
英:[kənˈstrɪktɪd]
美:[ kənˈstrɪktɪd]
verb
transitive verb
to make narrow or draw together
Smoking constricts blood vessels.
compress, squeeze These shoes are too small and they constrict my feet.
constrict a nerve
to stultify, stop, or cause to falter : inhibit
The expectation of violence constricts our lives.—Marge Piercy
intransitive verb
to become constricted
The drug causes the blood vessels to constrict.
Latin constrictus, past participle of constringere — see constrain
The first known use of constrict was in 1732
constructverb
to make or form by combining or arranging parts : build
to draw (a geometrical figure) with suitable instruments and under given conditions
constructverb
to make or form by combining or arranging parts : build
to draw (a geometrical figure) with suitable instruments and under given conditions
construeverb
to explain the grammatical relationships of the words in a sentence, clause, or phrase
to understand or explain the sense or intention of : interpret
constrictornoun
a snake that kills its prey by coiling around and crushing it
constrictverb
to make or become narrower or smaller by drawing together : squeeze, tighten
constrictionnoun
an act or instance of constricting
something that constricts : a part that is constricted
constrictverb
to make or become narrower or smaller by drawing together : squeeze, tighten
constrictverb
to make or become narrower or smaller by drawing together : squeeze, tighten
1 The only thing she was sure of was the way her heart constricted every time Kaede left, and every time she felt it, she was more determined to make sure it never happened.
2 But his only frame of reference is football, and even there his vision is constricted — in the film’s scheme, the Penn State players are as much in the background as the children Sandusky abused.
3 Gay was staring out at a jet that was coming in for a landing with a constricted expression on her face.
4 Vascular depression may result when blood vessels become less flexible and harden over time, becoming constricted.
血管型抑郁症可能产生,一旦血管随着时间变得缺乏韧性而发硬,变得狭窄。
5 Doesn't constricted old George have communication issues of his own?
6 The next, 1955, section starts strongly: a day out at the seaside for Ruby's children, narrated from the viewpoint of her crippled son Will, is constricted by family tensions implicit from previous chapters.
7 The Atlas’s Sprenger Theatre is a spacious black box, yet Tim Jones’s set cramps the actors in a weirdly tight living room in front of a bizarrely constricted nursery.
8 At times the walls and ceiling close in, an eerie metaphor to show how these peoples are constricted by their fears and enmity.
9 In the early part of their first scene alone together, Ms. Hyltin showed how the Sleepwalker is spatially constricted, with sharp turns as if redirected by unseen walls.
10 Her spinal chord was constricted, and she needed small bone grafts inserted to widen the channel.
11 Pain constricted her heart and whitened her lips.
痛苦折磨着她的心,她的嘴唇也变得苍白了.
12 Hong says she feels torn between the lyric, which recognizes ambiguity and contradiction, and the polemic, a more urgent yet constricted form.
13 Just getting out of bed is an agony for her, as Ms. Aniston suggests with a stiff, constricted physical performance to go with the character’s clenched face and shuttered, shattered world.
14 What do big words like responsibility and freedom mean, in a life as constricted as Jacob’s?
15 His throat felt tiny, constricted, but he wouldn’t let this stop him.
16 As in Africa, in the Americas the spread of native crops and domestic animals was slowed by constricted skies and environmental barriers.
17 His throat began to feel swollen and constricted.
他开始觉得喉咙肿胀发紧。
18 Both had felt constricted by others at many times in their lives, and struggled with revealing their true selves.
19 The irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life.
20 But in a larger sense, in terms of his ambitions beyond family, he did not want to be constricted by narrow choices.
2 缩小的
3 受限的
5 缩小
reduced contraction downgrade shrinkage contract narrow shrink close reduce constrict stop down scale back scale down
6 收缩的
7 狭隘的