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

• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't try to tie me down with those conventions.
  不要试图用那些协议限制我。
• In rich countries that threatens to tie down companies and give ailing housing markets a kicking.
  在发达国家，这可能会拖累公司业绩，并对已经轰然倒地的房地产市场再补上一脚。
• Hua said:" I am afraid that you will be scared, so Isuggest that we set up a post with a loop to tie down your arm with rope. Then, when your eyes are covered, I will start the operation. "
  华佗说：“我怕你害怕，立一柱子，柱子上吊一环，把你的胳膊套入环中，用绳子捆紧，再盖住你的眼睛，给你开刀治疗。”
• Still the land could not tie them down or call them back.
  可这土地还是不能拴住他们，不能召唤他们回来。
• 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。
• I can't tie them down to a fixed estimate of what it is likely to cost.
  因定预算可能会花费多少，我不能用这来限制他们。