They prefer to discipline themselves rather than be disciplined by others.

他们宁愿自我约束，也不愿制于人。

That makes their profits hostage to inflation.

这使得他们利润制于通货膨胀。

Their opponents are in awe of this, but still too in thrall to efficiency to try it.

他们反对者对此感到敬畏，但制于效率而不敢尝试。

Too often the focus of this organization has not been on results, but on bureaucracy and process.

这个组织太过制于官僚体系及颟顸程序，而非专注于结果。

Britain and France are keen to tip the balance back towards the rebels, but are locked into a European Union embargo against providing them with arms.

英法热切希望能扭转局势有利于反对派，但又制于欧盟对叙利亚武器援助禁令。

Well, I hate being controlled by others, and I don't want to start at the bottom of a steep corporate ladder.

我不愿意制于人，也不想从公司最底层开始往上爬。

C. It is limited to the time of writing.

C. 它制于写作时时代背景。

In the 1970s, the 90s and now in 2022, with Russia's war against Ukraine, we find ourselves once again in the grip of soaring fossil fuel prices that have exposed so many countries to deep social and economic strife.

上世纪 70 年代、90 年代，到如今 2022 年俄乌战争，我们一次又一次制于飙升化价格，让多少国家陷入了严峻社会和经济斗争。

We've all been subject to very generic selling strategies.

我们都制于非常普通销售策略。

We humans are bound to the flow of nature as well; the way we grow from infants to adults, the way we learn, the way our bodies function; all is bound to natural laws that we cannot control.

我们人类也制于自流动；我们从婴儿成长为成年人方式，我们学习方式，我们身体运转方式；一切都制于我们无法控制自法则。

Of course, this is subject to forgetting or other errors.

当，这主要是制于遗忘或者其他原因。

They debated alternative positioning, but every move seemed to be constrained by architecture.

他们讨论改成其他姿势，但似乎都会制于建筑。

But this was never a man bound by his own physical limitations.

但是霍金从未制于其身体缺陷。

" We're at the mercy of the market, " he said.

“我们制于市场”。

While our technology is at the mercy of these solar storms, our bodies are not.

虽我们科技制于这些太阳风暴，但我们身体不会。

The key thing, I think, Ari, was many were concerned that it would keep the United Kingdom in the grip of the European Union perhaps for years to come with no way to actually get out.

我认为关键在于，许多人担心该协议会让英国继续制于欧盟，可能很多年都无法真正脱离。

It turns out, though, living thing s are subject to a few additional ones.

而，事实证明，生物还制于一些额外因素。

He wanted to prove that pianos were not instruments bound by tradition and therefore unchangeable.

他想证明，钢琴并非制于传统、因而不可改变乐器。

Maybe the water has some sort of control over him.

也许他可能制于水。

And they are controlled by one company, which can dictate the terms of trade, such as what type of businesses are allowed on its digital property and what they have to pay for the privilege.

这些平台都制于某个公司，公司规定了贸易条款，比如自身数字资产将决定何种商业类型会被允许以及搭建平台所需代价。