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

• Tie down the foam and form the head of the cricket
  把泡沫绑起形成蟋蟀的头部
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't try to tie me down with those conventions.
  不要试图用那些协议限制我。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Anything that restrains ( especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).
  任何抑制物（尤其是束缚抑制囚犯的东西）。