- [usually plural] stricture (on somebody/something)
a severe criticism, especially of somebody’s behaviour 指摘；非难 She merely ignored any strictures on the way she dressed. 她只是无视对她穿着的任何限制。
- stricture (against/on something)
a rule or situation that limits your behaviour 限制；约束；束缚 strictures against civil servants expressing political opinions 对于公务员发表政治见解的禁令
Word Originlate Middle English (in the medical sense; abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body): from Latin strictura, from stringere ‘draw tight’. Another sense of the Latin verb, ‘touch lightly’, gave rise to sense (1) via an earlier meaning ‘incidental remark’.