Procrustean
普罗克汝斯式的
强加的；无视因地制宜或因人而异的重要性，强求一致的。
“普洛克路斯忒斯的床”
一出自古希腊神话故事
希腊语“Procrustes”的意思是“拉长者”、“暴虐者”。雅典奠基者忒修斯(Theseus)的英雄故事中传说：从墨加拉到雅典途中有个非常残暴的强盗，叫达玛斯忒斯，绰号“普洛克路斯忒斯”。公元前1世纪古希腊历史学家狄奥多(Diodoros,约公元前80-前29年)的《历史丛书》也记述了：普洛克路斯忒斯(Procrustes)是希腊神话中的一个强盗，专开黑店，拦截过路行人。他特意在自己店里设置了2张铁床，一长一短，强迫旅店躺在铁床上，身矮者睡长床，强拉躯体使其与床齐；身高者睡短床，他用利斧把旅客伸出来的腿脚截短。因为他的这种特殊的残暴方式，人称之为“铁床匪”。
希腊著名英雄忒修斯(Theseus)有一次在赶往雅典，寻父途中遇上了“铁床匪”，。忒修斯以其人之道还治其人之身，强令身体魁梧的普洛克路斯忒斯躺在短床上，一刀砍掉“铁床匪”伸出床外的下半肢，铲除了这个劫匪，为民除害。
因此留下来“a Procrustean bed”这个经典故事，该典亦做“The Procrustes' bed”或”The bed of Procrustes”，常用以表示”an arrangement or plan that produces uniformity by violent and arbitrary measures”之意。按其形象意义，这个成语与汉语成语“削足适履”、“截趾穿鞋”颇相同；也类似俗语“使穿小鞋”、“强求一律”的说法。
爱伦 坡(Edgar Allan Poe)在《窃信案》("The Purloined Letter")中写道:
The Parisian police," he said, "are exceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand. Thus, when G-detailed to us his mode of searching the premises the Hotel D---, I felt entire confidence in his having made a satisfactory investigation-- so far as his labors extended."
“So far as his labors extended?" said I.
“Yes," said Dupin. "The measures adopted were not only the best of their kind, but carried out to absolute perfection. . . . “
I merely laughed-- but he seemed quite serious in all that he said.
“The measures, then," he continued，”were good in their kind, and well executed; their defect lay in their being inapplicable to the case, and to the man. A certain set of highly ingenious resources are, with the Prefect, a sort of Procrustean bed, to which he forcibly adapts his designs. But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow for the matter in hand; and many a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he. "
“巴黎的警察，”他说，“有他们独特的能干之处。他们有韧性、办法、机灵，对自己的业务知识了如指掌。所以，G一向我们描搜查D一宾馆的方式时，我完全相信他进行了令人满意的调查。当然，前提是他要进行变通。”
“进行变通?”我问。的，”杜邦说，“他们不仅采取最好的方法，而且在执行时也极尽完美…..'. 我只是笑笑，但他看起来一脸严肃。
“这些方法，”他接着说，“本身很好，执行得也很好，唯一的缺陷在于不能根据具体的案子和人变通。一套巧妙的战术，就像普罗汝斯忒斯的床，被警察局长硬套到每个方案里。但是他一路都在错，对手头的案子不是调查过浅就是调查过深。很多小学生都更会推理。”
例句
1.I didn't put forth the plan as aProcrustean bed,to which exact conformity is to be indispensable.
我没有强求一律，但精确性、一致性不可或缺。
2.Don't stretch the facts to fit theProcrustean bed
不可削足适履，强求一律。