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词组 a Procrustean bed
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a Procrustean bed something designed to produce conformity by unnatural or violent means.

☞ In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a robber who tied his victims to a bed, either stretching or cutting off their legs in order to to make them fit it.

2013Daily Telegraph Can Europe do anything to help the Spanish, as a generation is maimed on the Procrustean bed of the euro?

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