procrustean

procrustean

美 [?pr??'kr?sti?n] 　英 [?pr??'kr?sti?n]

• adj.強求一致的；一刀切的
• 網絡普洛克路斯替斯；普羅克拉斯提斯；強求一致標準

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

adj.	1. 【希神】普羅克拉斯提斯的 2. 〈比喻〉用暴力使人就范的;強求一致的

英英解釋

adj.	1. trying to establish conformity by using any and all means, including violence

例句

I did not put forth the plan as a Procrustean bed, to which exact conformity is to be indispens able.

我提出這項計劃不是要一刀切讓大家必須遵守的。

The martinet governed his classroom with procrustean discipline, assigning a week's detention to all offenders, no matter what the offense.

厲行嚴格紀律的人以硬性規定來管理他的班級，規定不管觸犯什么，只要是違規者都要監禁一星期。

Morning exercise is an annoying unpopular Procrustean bed to all our students.

晨練對我們學生來說是令人討厭的“一刀切”的做法。

They have some particular theory to maintain, and whatever does not fit their Procrustean bed is at once condemned.

他們都持有某種特殊理論，凡與他們死板的標準不相符合者，便會立即受到排斥。

Never stiffen your idea and never act in a Procrustean way for the stale regulations and queer ideas.

千萬不要固執你的行為，不要為了那僵硬的臭規矩、怪理念，削足適履。

Actually, it is extremely risky to try to fit either the First or Second New Deal in any Procrustean bed of ideology.

實際上，試圖把第一次或第二次新政勉強納入某種意識形態的范疇是極其危險的。

They can neither normalize all scientific subjects with physics science, act in a Procrustean way.

也不可削足適履，以“物理科學”觀，規范所有的科學學科。

Yeah, I see. I'll not place all of them on Procrustean bed.

我知道。我不會對他們要求一致的。