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Hidebound describes a person, a group, or an institution with old-fashioned attitudes that will not . You use it when you . A hidebound school may still run everything the way it did fifty years ago and treat new ideas as a threat. A hidebound mind follows custom as if it were rope. The word is fairly formal; you will meet it in news and essays more than in playground talk. It does not mean hidden, and it does not mean someone is bound for a hiding place. It means stuck — too tight to change.
食古不化、守舊、思想僵化（帶貶義）
組成From hide, meaning an animal's skin, plus bound, meaning tied. Picture an animal wrapped so tightly in its own dry skin that it cannot move — then picture a mind that cannot move either.
同家族的字
- hidehere hide means animal skin, not go where nobody sees you
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hideboundadj/ˈhaɪd.baʊnd/
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Bound with the hide of an animal.
- Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life.
- But no matter where their place of residence, they were always accompanied by the hidebound chest that held the family papers.
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Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
- Some of the horses were looking hidebound, and I promised the sergeant that I'd buy a couple of hundredweight of linseed for them when I went on leave. Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions.
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Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
- It hath been observed that hacking of trees in their bark, both downright, and across, so as you make them rather in slices than in continued hacks, doth great good to trees; and especially delivereth them from being hide-bound, and killeth their moss.
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Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
- And how can a man teach with autority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a Doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licencer to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humor which he calls his judgement.
- In fact, such unfortunate persons have no resource but to become what we call Pedants; to ensconce themselves in a safe world of habitudes, of applicable or inapplicable traditions; not coveting, rather avoiding the general daylight of common-sense, as very extraneous to them and their procedure; by long persistence in which course they become Completed Pedants, hidebound, impenetrable, able to defy the hostile extraneous element; an alarming kind of men
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obsoleteNiggardly; penurious; stingy.
- 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。