strangles

基本解釋

But most of the time it strangles a company.
但大多時候，這一文化卻是將公司束縛得幾近窒息。
At the end he slips in a little duet where the man having balanced his partner in a neck hold apparently strangles her and leaves her for dead.
結(jié)尾的部分，他避開了以往的那種男人扶著女人的脖子保持平衡的二人舞，而是讓男人勒住了女人，竝讓她窒息死去。
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European bankers have been saying things are fine for weeks now, even as their exposure to indebted euro-zone countries strangles their access to funding.
歐洲的銀行家表示目前狀況良好好久了，即使被曝?zé)o法從負(fù)債累累的歐元區(qū)政府獲得資金援助。

The present combination of taxes, licensing fees and bribes already strangles many competent entrepreneurs.
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It, through tax, fiscal, monetary and other policy, establishes an economic climate that generates — or strangles — opportunity.
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Longer-term, however, devaluation strangles job creation because inflation slows any returns on investment.
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