| 释义 |
apron string
[常作 apron strings]1. 围裙带
a length of apron string 一段围裙带
2. 支配，控制
cut loose from that country's apron strings 摆脱那个国家的控制
the government's strengthened oil apron strings 政府对石油的强化控制
phr. be tied to the apron strings of 受着…的支配；依赖 Though forty years old he was still tied to his mother's apron strings. 尽管已40岁了，他仍处处听他母亲的。 |