procrustean

procrustean

美 [ˌprəʊ'krʌstiən] 　英 [ˌprəʊ'krʌstiən]

• adj.强求一致的；一刀切的
• 网络普洛克路斯替斯；普罗克拉斯提斯；强求一致标准

英汉双解

英汉解释

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

英英解释

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.

我提出这项计划不是要一刀切让大家必须遵守的。

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

厉行严格纪律的人以硬性规定来管理他的班级，规定不管触犯什么，只要是违规者都要监禁一星期。

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

晨练对我们学生来说是令人讨厌的“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.

他们都持有某种特殊理论，凡与他们死板的标准不相符合者，便会立即受到排斥。

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

千万不要固执你的行为，不要为了那僵硬的臭规矩、怪理念，削足适履。

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

实际上，试图把第一次或第二次新政勉强纳入某种意识形态的范畴是极其危险的。

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

也不可削足适履，以“物理科学”观，规范所有的科学学科。

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

我知道。我不会对他们要求一致的。