1.(由门外拉开活栓锁的)栓锁带
1.a string attached to a latch and passed through a hole in a door to allow somebody to open it from the other side
1.but she is 'a relation' and so his latchstring must be always out for her.
但她是一个‘亲戚’,所以他的大门必须一直为她敞开。