hidebound: [16] The term hidebound was originally applied to cattle so emaciated that their skin (or hide) was dry and stiff and clung closely to their bones. The idea of being trapped immovably inside one’s skin had led by the early 17th century to the meaning we are most familiar with today: ‘set immovably in one’s opinions, narrow-minded’.
hidebound (adj.)
1550s, from hide (n.1) + past tense of bind (v.). Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of "restricted by narrow attitudes" is first recorded c. 1600.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The economy was hidebound by public spending and private monopolies.
經(jīng)濟(jì)由于公共開(kāi)支和私有壟斷而變得僵化。
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2. The men are hidebound and reactionary.
那些人頑固且反動(dòng)。
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3. You will never change their ideas. They are far too hidebound.
你無(wú)法改變他們的意思, 因?yàn)樗麄兲爻梢?guī).
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4. Whole world the children with 70 hidebound % lives in this area.
全世界70%營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良的兒童都居住在這個(gè)地區(qū).
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5. Grange chairman explanation says this pig as a child hidebound, raise deadlocked.