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

• Believe me; believe me I can't help but love you but believe me I'll never tie you down.
  请你相信我吧，对你情难自禁。但请你相信我，我绝不束缚你。
• 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。
• 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。
• I don't want to tie myself down to coming back on a particular date.
  我不想限定自己在哪一天回来。
• But this move by our4th column will directly menace the northwestern and northern suburbs of Peiping and tie down those enemy forces so that they dare not move.
  但四纵此举直接威胁北平西北郊和北郊，可以钳制这些敌人不敢动。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。