tie down

英 [taɪ daʊn]

美 [taɪ daʊn]

限制; 束缚; 牵制

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 限制;束缚;牵制
  A person or thing thattiesyoudownrestricts your freedom in some way.
  1. We'd agreed from the beginning not to tie each other down...
     我们一开始就说好了不会互相束缚。
  2. The reason he didn't have a family was that he didn't want to be tied down.
     他没有成家的理由是不想被捆住手脚。

英英释义

verb

• restrain from independence by an obligation
  1. He was tied down by his work
• secure with or as if with ropes
  1. tie down the prisoners
  2. tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
  Synonym:tie upbindtruss

双语例句

• Tie down the foam to create the thorax
  继续把泡沫绑起形成背部
• But Google is not a state-owned utility and Europe should not allow its Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver just because he is bigger than them.
  但谷歌也并非一家国有公用事业公司，欧洲不应仅仅因为巨人的个子远远大于小人，就允许小人捆住巨人。
• She doesn't want children because she says they tie you down.
  她不想要孩子，因为她说孩子会使你受到束缚。
• A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!
  刮风暴了！快把东西系好，别刮跑了！
• Tie down the foam and form the head of the cricket
  把泡沫绑起形成蟋蟀的头部
• The enfant terrible of the business world attributes his success to hard-work, lack of personal distractions and extensive use of binding employment contracts: I like to tie down my best employees.
  这名商界怪才将他的成功归因于三点：一是勤奋努力，二是一心工作，三是广泛采用约束力大的雇佣合同：我喜欢把最优秀的员工牢牢拴住。
• Li Wu, see the little girl did not respond, they pull out the clothes a brooch, into his arm severely tie it down.
  小姑娘见李武没有反应，就拔出衣服上一枚胸针，对着他的胳膊狠狠扎了下去。
• Don't try to tie me down with those conventions.
  不要试图用那些协议限制我。
• One officer had to tie down the left leg, another one the right leg, and so on, but I was the only one to execute the condemned.
  一个人负责绑住左腿，另一个人负责右腿，以此类推，但我是惟一负责处决死刑犯的人。
• Belay-Usually means to tie something down but pirates used it to prevent someone to do something.
  Belay-通常的意思是把什么东西捆起来，不过海盗们用来阻止某人做某事。