unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention 迂腐的,墨守成规的,守旧的,古板的 you are hidebound by your petty laws. 你让你那些条条框框捆住了手脚。
语源
mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a condition of cattle): from hide + bound. The earliest sense of the adjective (referring to cattle) was extended to emaciated human beings, and then applied figuratively in the sense 'narrow, cramped, or bigoted in outlook'