指受形势的阻碍或限制。
形格势禁 [xíng gé shì jìn]
1. be forced to stop doing sth. according [owing] to circumstances; obstructed by conditions and prohibited by circumstances; pinned down by the situation指受形势的阻碍或限制。
梁启超《箴立法家》：“若法意虽甚善美，而形格势禁，不获举而措之，则无宁暂缓焉。”
在合和二期上，胡文新确实胜过形格势禁的父亲胡应湘；
In handling the Hopewell Centre II project, he has outdone his father, who has been fettered by circumstances.
民族伦理在“世界历史时代”的处境可谓是形格势禁，其世代传承的完备体系频频招致外来伦理文化的侵袭。
The ethnical ethics is nearly in the inferior position in modern historical stage, and the whole ethical system has been hit by the external ethnical ethics.
指受形势的阻碍或限制。亦作“形禁势格”。亦作“形劫势禁”。
