strangles

基本解释

But most of the time it strangles a company.
但大多时候，这一文化却是将公司束缚得几近窒息。
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.
结尾的部分，他避开了以往的那种男人扶着女人的脖子保持平衡的二人舞，而是让男人勒住了女人，并让她窒息死去。
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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.
欧洲的银行家表示目前状况良好好久了，即使被曝无法从负债累累的欧元区政府获得资金援助。

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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an acute bacterial disease of horses caused by infection with Streptococcus equi, characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, resulting in abscesses and a nasal discharge (Also called equine distemper)