stranglehold

1 Nov. 12 marked the historic day when after 13 years, Britney Spears finally freed herself from her father's stranglehold, proclaiming, "I ain't a slave 4 u!"

2 In the Dakota territories in the 1840s, female traders of the Metis people were fed up with low prices offered by the British Hudson’s Bay Company, which had a stranglehold on the fur trade.

3 In the previous Congress I introduced legislation that would eliminate the three major barriers to competition in currency and break the Fed's stranglehold on money.

在前一届国会里，我提交了一个法案，旨在消除货币竞争的三个主要障碍并打破美联储对货币的束缚。

4 Mr Sutherland said fears that Russia had a stranglehold over Europe's energy supplies were misplaced.

萨瑟兰表示,对俄罗斯将控制欧洲能源供应的担忧是没有根据的.

5 Ravka is this nation that has really been kept in a stranglehold by this swath of darkness called the Shadow Fold.

6 On the debit side, isn't this just another means of Hollywood maintaining its stranglehold?

7 Our culture has been in a stranglehold by this hipster cynicism that permeates art and popular art.

8 Miller himself once seemed to urge a radical approach, when he talked of the "stranglehold of naturalism" that had gripped productions of his work.

9 The X Factor's stranglehold is so far reaching, from the tabloids to the Guardian, from Twitter to Facebook, that it becomes increasingly difficult not to get sucked into Cowell's world.

10 A big win in New Hampshire and then a victory in the next vote in South Carolina would all but give Romney a stranglehold on the Republican presidential nomination.

11 This terror that seized my lungs in a stranglehold was the only answer.

12 He wants to break the orthodox stranglehold over marriage laws.

他想要打破婚姻法中的正统枷锁。

13 All that’s left for Mr. Santos to do is to anoint the genre’s next generation, which is only just beginning to form, now that Aventura’s stranglehold has loosened.

14 Another major factor is the consolidation over the past decade of wholesalers, giving a handful of companies a stranglehold on the distribution channels to retail shelves.

15 He laughed quietly, and gently unloosened my stranglehold on his neck.

他安静地笑了起来，温柔地解开了我紧扣在他脖子上的胳膊。

16 An antitrust judgment in 1954 forced the firm to release stranglehold on the shoe machinery market.

1954年一项反托拉斯裁决迫使这家公司放弃在制鞋机械市场的垄断地位.

17 When the field caught him, Seabiscuit bounced away again, winning by three lengths under a stranglehold.

18 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。

19 Then there was the impact of the iPad on publishers, who saw the Apple iBook store as a way of breaking Amazon's stranglehold on sales – and, more important, the pricing – of ebooks.

20 With Marvel and DC maintaining a stranglehold over blockbuster adaptations, the American comic-book tradition is still impregnable.

1 完全控制

monopoly monopolize

2 压制

repressive heavy-handed oppression repression strangulation press oppress repress quell suppressive extrusion clampdown silence humble throttle strangle extrude squelch tyrannical tyrannous hardhanded hardship conquest withhold ride bow squash restrain crucify coerce tyrannize overbear oppressive suffocating suppression oppressiveness suppress muzzle stifle subdue keep under stamp on quench slap down keep down control inhibition master govern overlay cork neutralize extinguish overrule quash throttlehold

3 障碍

stay bar stick difficulty disorder drag penalty barrier rub obstacle reef hedge objection affection hurdle lesion drawback disturbance foe traverse mar hitch handicap bunker embarrassment bottleneck bandit roadblock barricade impediment hindrance obstructive balk stinger pullback hobble discouragement bafflement

4 箝制

rein muzzle

5 束缚

band tie bond constraint restraint cramp hamper leash captivity yoke shackle bondage limbo bridle duress hobble noose thrall fetter manacle trammel hamshackle enfetter chain bind hedge restrain constrain imprison tether halter swaddle enchain entrammel astrict tie by the leg bind down hold in leash strangulation strait-jacket tentacle stricture straitjacket shackles restrict tie down to doing tie down to to doing tie down astriction restriction cord binding slavery thralldom thraldom ring-fence astringe engage curb pinion strait-waistcoat

6 遏制

check countercheck bottle restrain

7 控制某事物

keep in

8 紧扼

strangulation

9 绝对控制

empire

10 严格控制

regimental regimentation regiment