英语词汇“hidebound”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

hidebound

/ˈhʌɪdbaʊnd

adjective

Unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention: they are working to change hidebound corporate cultures...

Martha, Mary and their friends at the Women's Centre are trying to do their bit for the feminist movement but are usually thwarted by the intransigence of conventional outlooks and hidebound attitudes to gender.
This is the kind of step that is quite often made in science by a junior researcher, not yet hidebound by tradition.
It needs someone immediately capable of cutting through the company's notoriously intractable bureaucracy and hidebound engineering culture.

Synonyms

conservative, reactionary, conventional, orthodox, fundamentalist, diehard, hard-line, dyed-in-the-wool, ultra-conservative, fixed in one's views, set in one's opinions, set in one's ways;

narrow-minded, narrow, petty-minded, small-minded, intolerant, intractable, uncompromising, rigid, prejudiced, bigoted, strait-laced;

British blimpish

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle): from hide² + bound⁴. 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'.

单词	hidebound
释义	hidebound /ˈhʌɪdbaʊnd / adjective Unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention: they are working to change hidebound corporate cultures... Martha, Mary and their friends at the Women's Centre are trying to do their bit for the feminist movement but are usually thwarted by the intransigence of conventional outlooks and hidebound attitudes to gender. This is the kind of step that is quite often made in science by a junior researcher, not yet hidebound by tradition. It needs someone immediately capable of cutting through the company's notoriously intractable bureaucracy and hidebound engineering culture. Synonyms conservative, reactionary, conventional, orthodox, fundamentalist, diehard, hard-line, dyed-in-the-wool, ultra-conservative, fixed in one's views, set in one's opinions, set in one's ways; narrow-minded, narrow, petty-minded, small-minded, intolerant, intractable, uncompromising, rigid, prejudiced, bigoted, strait-laced; British blimpish Origin Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a malnourished condition of cattle): from hide² + bound⁴. 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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