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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• We must tie him down to the contract.
  我们必须使他受合同约束。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。