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

• We must tie him down to the contract.
  我们必须使他受合同约束。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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。
• The blues are keen to tie down their star midfielder to a new long-term contract to ward off potential suitors of the England international.
  蓝军希望用一份新的长期合同留住他们的明星中场，并避免那些对这位英格兰国脚有所觊觎的追求者。
• 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。
• 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。
• The comparable dates for the computer are harder to tie down, but the first big computer, based on vacuum valves, was built in1946.
  对于计算机来说，繁多的数据是很难被处理的。但是，世界上第一台基于真空管技术的巨型计算机诞生于1946年。
• When managing a semi-professional club, it's a good idea to try and tie down key players to full-time contracts to maximise their training time.
  当执教半职业俱乐部时，把球员合同签成全职合同以增加训练，会是一个好主意。
• He did not tie me down with too many regulations, but provided help when needed.
  他不会用太多的限定、规定来束缚我，但是在有需要的时候会给我帮助。