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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 stran·gle·hold /ˈstræŋgəlˌhold/
 勒頸,壓製自由,抑制,束縛

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 stranglehold
      n 1: complete power over a person or situation; "corporations
           have a strangelhold on the media"; "the president
           applied a chokehold to labor disputes that
           inconvenienced the public" [syn: chokehold, throttlehold]
      2: a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the
         opponent's windpipe