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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• Your fickleness will however entice a host of unusual suitors eager to tie you down.
  然而正是你的这种变化无常，却深深地诱惑着一群渴望牢牢套住你的追求者。
• 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。
• Luyuan continued to resist anything that would tie her down.
  李芦媛继续抵制着任何可能会束缚她的事情。
• 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。
• 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。