Policymakers should have intervened to curb the excesses but were hamstrung by free-market ideology .

决策者本应出台干涉过度消费，却被自由市场理念束住了手脚。

The internationals , meanwhile , are hamstrung by confusion and bureaucratic inertia , requiring things to become critical before acting decisively .

同时，国际组织处处都受制于混乱和官僚的保守，这就要求事情在果断采取行动之前成为关键。

Opposition groups are often hamstrung and harassed .

反对派团体经常受到削弱和侵扰。

The new supervisory authorities are also hamstrung .

新的监管机构也同样难有作为。

Like if l hamstrung one of their ponies .

就像我挑了他们马的脚筋。