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. 控制;约束;钳制
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These companies are determined to keep a stranglehold on the banana industry.
这些公司决心要垄断香蕉业。
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The troops are tightening their stranglehold on the city.
部队正在加强对该市的控制。
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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。
SYN grip, hold, grasp, clutches
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