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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• We must tie him down to the contract.
  我们必须使他受合同约束。
• I can't tie them down to a fixed estimate of what it is likely to cost.
  因定预算可能会花费多少，我不能用这来限制他们。
• 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。
• Tie down the foam and form the head of the cricket
  把泡沫绑起形成蟋蟀的头部
• 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。
• 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 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。