double bind

英 [ˌdʌbl ˈbaɪnd]

美 [ˌdʌbl ˈbaɪnd]

n.  两难境地

牛津词典

noun

• 两难境地
  a situation in which it is difficult to choose what to do because whatever you choose will have negative results

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 两难境地;进退维谷
  If you arein a double bind, you are in a very difficult situation, because whatever decision you make will have bad results.
  1. Women are caught in a double bind, marginalised in the community if they are not wives and mothers, under excessive pressure to be perfect if they are.
     女性陷入了两难境地，如果她不为人妻为人母就会被社会边缘化，如果她为人妻为人母就会承受成为完美的妻子和母亲的巨大压力。

英英释义

noun

• (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma

双语例句

• Repeated experience. The double bind is a recurrent theme in the experience of the victim and as such cannot be constituted as a single traumatic experience.
  重复经历。双重境地对受害人来说会反复出现，从而不构成单一创伤型经历。
• Double bind is a communicative situation where a person receives different or contradictory messages.
  双重境地是一个沟通情景。此时，一个人获得的是不同或彼此矛盾的信息。
• Same as the double bind between the mother and son.
  该双重境地和母子之间的双重境地一样。
• This is very similar to the double bind: "You must be free".
  这个”你必须自由“的双重境地类似。
• The double bind may not always be so damaging, but it always endangers the mental health of anyone to whom it is applied.
  进退两难，不一定是这样有害，但人若陷于其中，会危及精神健康。
• CONCLUSION: The concept of double bind is created in certain historical situation and it contributes to explain the schizophrenia and mental disorder.
  结论：双重束缚的提出有其特定的历史背景，它对精神分裂、精神错乱的形成有一定的解释力。
• Studies about double bind in management, culture and moral;
  管理、文化和道德中双重束缚的研究。
• The headteacher is caught in a double bind because whether she expels the boy or lets him off, she still gets blamed.
  校长陷入了进退两难之境，因为无论她将男孩开除，还是免予处罚，都会受到谴责。
• DATA SYNTHESIS: Double bind is created by Bateson on base of "deutero-learning" and "Russellian paradox".
  资料综合：双重束缚是Bateson结合再学习和Russellian矛盾两个概念提出的。
• Bateson and his co-workers have made a plausible case for viewing the double bind as an important causative factor in the genesis of schizophrenia ( 17).
  他和同僚有一个言之成理的说法，认为进退两难是精神分裂症的重要成因。