1·The moon struggled in its straitjacket: a tremor like that of an earthquake caused avalanches of empty cans to slide down from the mountain of refuse.
月亮与它的紧身衣搏斗着：发出一阵阵的震动，就像地震引起空的罐子从垃圾山上滑下来造成的震动那样。
2·The seeds of California’s current crisis were planted more than 30 years ago, when voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 13, a ballot measure that placed the state’s budget in a straitjacket.
加州危机之种在30多年前，“第十三项提案”（注2）以绝对优势投票通过时，就已经种下了，这个投票结果给加州的财政预算穿上了紧身衣。
3·The web of direct and indirect manipulation is a straitjacket that binds life and necessarily limits the ways it can appear to itself and structure itself.
这张由直接或者间接的操纵组成的网，就是束缚生活的一件紧身衣，约束了生活本来可以呈现和构建自身的方式。