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 comparable dates for the computer are harder to tie down, but the first big computer, based on vacuum valves, was built in1946.
  对于计算机来说，繁多的数据是很难被处理的。但是，世界上第一台基于真空管技术的巨型计算机诞生于1946年。
• 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！
• 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 by dressing black tie down or putting a new spin on it, suddenly the men can look more interesting too.
  但如果休闲地穿上无尾礼服或者在上面加上新的修饰，顿时男士们也会看上去更有趣。
• 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 must tie him down to the contract.
  我们必须使他受合同约束。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。