procrustean bed

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.

日本語の意味

人々の統一性を求めるために無理に押し付けられる、恣意的な規格または基準。これにより、本来有用な部分が犠牲にされるという比喩的表現。

英語の意味

An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.

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Imposing a procrustean bed on the research team stifled creativity and discarded valuable methodologies.

研究チームに無理な画一的基準を押し付けたことで創造性が抑えられ、有益な手法が切り捨てられた。

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意味（1）

An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.

Merely to jingle common-place ideas in rhyme, may be easy enough; but to make fine sense, animated and appropriate description, and beautiful imagery, recline gracefully on that Procrustean bed, is about as easy as to compose music like Handel or Hedyen, and to paint like Reynolds, Romney, and Fuzeli.

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procrustean beds （ plural ）