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词汇 hidebound
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hidebound

adjective
/ˈhaɪdbaʊnd/
/ˈhaɪdbaʊnd/
(disapproving)
  1. having old-fashioned ideas, rather than accepting new ways of thinking守旧的;迂腐的 synonym narrow-minded
    • She wanted a life that was less hidebound by rules and conventions.她想要一种不受规则和习俗束缚的生活。
    词源mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle): from hide ‘animal skin’ + bound ‘restrained’. The earliest sense of the adjective (referring to cattle) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense ‘narrow in outlook’.
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