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

• 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。
• If you haven't yet been able to tie down exactly what parts of your project need to be done in software and which in hardware, an FPGA is probably the ideal solution.
  如果您还不能准确地确定项目中的哪些部分需要通过软件完成、哪些部分需要通过硬件完成，则FPGA可能会是您的一个理想的选择。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Don't try to tie me down with those conventions.
  不要试图用那些协议限制我。
• 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。
• 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。