stranglehold

noun

1. 掐脖子；卡脖子
   a strong hold around sb's neck that makes it difficult for them to breathe
2. 压制；束缚
   complete control over sth that makes it impossible for it to grow or develop well
   1. The company now had a stranglehold on the market.
      这家公司现在垄断了市场。

1. N-SING 控制;约束;钳制
   To have a stranglehold on something means to have control over it and prevent it from being free or from developing.
   1. These companies are determined to keep a stranglehold on the banana industry...
      这些公司决心要垄断香蕉业。
   2. The troops are tightening their stranglehold on the city...
      部队正在加强对该市的控制。
   3. To succeed, the new paper will need to break the stranglehold of the printing unions.
      要想获得成功的话，这份新报纸就要冲破印刷业联合会的钳制。

1. These companies are determined to keep a stranglehold on the banana industry
   这些公司决心要垄断香蕉业。
2. The troops are tightening their stranglehold on the city
   部队正在加强对该市的控制。
3. To succeed, the new paper will need to break the stranglehold of the printing unions.
   要想获得成功的话，这份新报纸就要冲破印刷业联合会的钳制。
4. Even worse, it no longer has a stranglehold on it managers, a growing number of which are now letting employees bring their device of choice to work.
   更糟糕的是，RIM无法再对IT经理们施加任何限制，越来越多的IT经理开始允许员工上班时携带自己喜欢的设备。
5. He wants to undo the stranglehold he says the teachers unions have on politics, which in turn prevent teachers from becoming more accountable.
   他希望解除他所说的教师工会在政治问题的枷锁，因为后者反过来压制了教师责任感。
6. Microsoft managed to leverage its strength in PC operating systems into a stranglehold over the word-processing and spreadsheet applications.
   微软就设法利用其在PC操作系统方面的强势，在文字处理和表单领域牢牢控制着市场。
7. After a 14-year reign, Jack has lost its stranglehold on the title of England and Wales 'top name for newborn boys, replaced by Oliver.
   Oliver最近获选英格兰和威尔士最受欢迎的新生男孩名字，而在之前14年间，这一殊荣一直为Jack占据。
8. They place a stranglehold on our happiness, and the only person who can release them is you.
   它们把持着我们的幸福，唯一可以释放它们的人是你自己。
9. Chinese real estate conglomerate Dalian Wanda is teaming up with two of China's largest internet companies in an$ 814m ecommerce joint venture aimed at loosening Alibaba's stranglehold on the country's booming ecommerce market, the FT's Charles Clover writes.
   中国房地产集团万达集团（Wanda）正联手中国最大的两家互联网企业，共同投资8.14亿美元设立一家电子商务企业，希望借此打破阿里巴巴（Alibaba）对中国电子商务市场的统领地位。
10. Reformers have argued that their stranglehold on the oil sector raises costs for consumers, crowds out potentially more competitive groups, and allows them to hijack policy to support their interests.
    主张改革的人士认为，这些集团霸占石油部门，提高了消费者的成本，排挤了潜在更具竞争力的企业，并且让它们出于自身利益绑架政策。
11. But the US Seventh Fleet's role in policing strategic waters such as the Malacca Straits, through which 80 per cent of China's imported oil flows, would also give Washington a strategic stranglehold in case of conflict over Taiwan.
    但一旦爆发台海冲突，美国第七舰队在辖制马六甲海峡等战略水域的作用，将使美国具备战略遏制力。中国80%的进口石油需要通过马六甲海峡。
12. Bottom line: without Unions big company executives will continue to increase their stranglehold on American poor and middle-cla ss and offshore jobs-just as they have been doing since Reagan.
    结果是：没有工会，大公司的高管们，还是会继续束缚美国穷苦人、中产阶级和海外工作者，就跟他们自里根时代起一直做的那样。
13. A few large firms have a stranglehold on the production of this essential commodity.
    少数几家大公司对这种不可或缺的日用品的生产给予箝制。
14. The imminent collapse of the monetary system will produce amazing changes that will free all countries and peoples from the debt that had such a stranglehold on their lives.
    即将来临的金融系统的崩溃将产生奇妙的转变，那将解放所有的国家和人民，从那紧紧束缚住他们的债务中解脱出来。
15. The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade.
    新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。
16. Regulators and investors in the UK stirred an international debate on the big four amid concern that their stranglehold was having a pernicious effect on choice and quality in the audit market, and creating significant risks to financial stability.
    英国的监管机构和投资者激起了一场关于四大会计公司的国际性辩论。人们担心，四大会计公司的势力对审计市场的选择和质量产生了有害影响，对金融稳定造成了巨大风险。
17. Reforms which loosened the stranglehold of the upper classes.
    对上层阶级放松束缚的一些改革措施。
18. Government forces have tightened their stranglehold on the region.
    政府军已对这个地区加强了控制。
19. Today, China is a land of cranes, massive development projects, modern cities, with street lights and mobile phones everywhere, and a stranglehold on the manufacture and shipping of just about everything the world needs.
    如今，中国到处都是起重机、大规模开发项目和现代城市，路灯和手机随处可见。世界所需一切物品的制造和运输，几乎都在中国的掌控下。
20. Tired of the stranglehold of the sport's commercial rights holders Bernie Ecclestone and the Ferrari influence, there is even still talk of a breakaway championship in2008.
    他们厌倦了该项赛事商业权掌控者伯尼的压制和法拉利的影响，甚至有传闻说要在2008年退出锦标赛。
21. Mr Lee said Chinese internet companies such as Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba were likely to retain their stranglehold on the Chinese market as misgivings about China held their American rivals back.
    李开复表示，百度、腾讯（Tencent）和阿里巴巴（Alibaba）等中国互联网公司很可能保持各自在中国市场的压倒地位，而它们的美国竞争对手则被有关中国的种种疑虑所牵制。
22. It seems far-fetched, but people worried about the stranglehold of the big four in the US and Europe have wondered, in dreamier moments, whether a Chinese firm could break the bind.
    这一说法似乎有些牵强，但那些担心欧美四大会计师事务所束缚的人们一直在想，在某个梦幻般的时刻，中国审计事务所是否有可能冲破这种束缚。
23. They have faced criticism for making big profits because of a stranglehold on financing channels.
    人们一直在批评它们通过垄断融资渠道获取巨额利润。
24. More importantly, this affair has exposed the virtual stranglehold which Murdoch has exerted over British government policy and all important aspects of life in the last decades.
    更重要的是，这一事件暴露了默多克在过去几十年内对英国政府的政策及其所有重要方面的实际控制。
25. The president's stranglehold on power has given the Central African country a certain stability.
    他紧抓总统大权使这个中非国家相当稳定。
26. Also some interesting points made by Laurence, is it right for one company to have such a stranglehold on such a major market?
    也有一些有趣的论点所作出的劳伦斯，是它的权利，为一间公司有这样的束缚就这么大的市场？
27. 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。
28. Progress has been less marked in inland waterways and coastal shipping, where users complain about the stranglehold of a few state-owned monopolies on operations.
    但内陆水路和沿海航运方面的进步不那么显著，在这两个领域，用户抱怨少数国有企业的垄断制约了行业的发展。
29. His late strike against Leyton Orient on a cold November night only emphasised his value to Leeds, as the club finally escaped League One's stranglehold at the third attempt.
    在11月的一个寒冷的晚上，他最后时刻对莱顿东方的进球，证明了他对利兹的无比价值，使得球队在第三次冲击英冠后终于获得了成功。
30. The big advantage of conventional publishers, and the main problem for anyone who wants to follow an alternative route, is the stranglehold of distribution.
    传统出版商的巨大优势，也就是想要另辟蹊径者的主要问题，就是销售瓶颈的突破。

noun

1. a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe

2. complete power over a person or situation
   1. corporations have a stranglehold on the media
   2. the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public

   Synonym:    chokeholdthrottlehold