| 单词 | tie up |
| 释义 | tie uptie up phrasal verbphr v a) person 人 tie somebody ↔ upTIE to tie someone’s arms, legs etc so that they cannot move 把某人捆绑起来 SYN bind The intruders tied Kurt up and left him. 闯入者把库尔特捆绑起来，然后丢下他走了。 b) object 物体 tie something ↔ upTIE to fasten something together, using string, rope etc 把某物捆绑起来 He tied up all the old newspapers. 他把所有旧报纸都捆扎起来。 c) busy 忙碌的 be tied upBUSY/NOT AVAILABLE to be very busy, so that you cannot do anything else 忙得脱不开身 I can’t see you tomorrow – I’ll be tied up all day. 我明天没法见你——我整天都会忙得脱不开身。 d) traffic/phone/court etc 交通/电话/法庭等 tie something ↔ upTTC especially American EnglishAmE to block a system or use it so much that other people cannot use it or it does not work effectively 使堵塞；使〔系统〕瘫痪 → tie-up Don’t tie up the phone lines making personal calls. 不要一直占着电话线打私人电话。 Protesters tied up the traffic for three hours today. 今天抗议者使交通堵塞了三个小时。 e) money 钱 be tied upMONEY if your money is tied up in something, it is all being used for that thing and is not available for anything else 被套住，不能动用 be tied up in My money’s all tied up in the house. 我的钱全部套在房子上了。 f) arrangements 安排 tie something ↔ upFINISH DOING something to finish arranging all the details of something such as an agreement or a plan 订妥〔协议或计划〕；安排好某事 SYN finalize We’d better tie up the details with a solicitor. 我们最好找个律师把细节商量妥当。 g) be tied up with somethingCONNECTED WITH to be very closely related to something 与某事物有密切联系 SYN be linked to The shortage of teachers is tied up with the issue of pay. 师资紧缺和工资问题有密切联系。 h) tie up loose endsFINISH DOING something to do the things that are necessary in order to finish a piece of work 做收尾的工作 I need to tie up a few loose ends before I go on vacation. 我去度假前要把一些事情了结掉。 i) animal 动物 tie something ↔ up to tie an animal to something with a rope, chain etc 把…拴起来 SYN tether tie something ↔ up to She left the dog tied up to a tree. 她就把狗拴在树上。 j) boat 船TTW to tie a boat to something with a rope, chain etc 系泊 SYN moor We tied up alongside a barge. 我们把船系泊在一艘驳船旁边。 tie something ↔ up There was a boat tied up at the jetty. 码头上泊着一艘小船。 Examples from the Corpus tie up• Clara tied up all the books again and put the bundle under the desk.• The soldiers tied them up and beat them.• Mrs Bennett had been tied up and left in the back of the van.• I put the coins in a piece of cloth, tied it up and put the package in my bag. be tied up• "May I speak to Professor Smithers?" "I'm sorry. He's tied up at the moment."• I'm sorry, he's tied up at the moment. Could you call back later?• I can't see you tomorrow, I'm tied up all day.• No point in fixing dates when television's cameras are tied up elsewhere.• Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.• Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.• Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.• The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.• Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.• The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.• On completion day, the legal ends are tied up, you collect the keys and move into your new home. tie in• Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.• No more than 10 percent of total investment to be tied up in any one company. 2.• Her platinum hair, with its dark roots, was tied up in dozens of tiny pigtails.• Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.• Traffic was tied up in most of downtown Washington until early afternoon.• Our mental images of ourselves are tied up in our body image.• The Great Bane was tied up in the yard.• The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard. be tied up with something• The trouble is, he's going to be tied up with all this now.• Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.• Christianity in Africa is tied up with its colonial past.• The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.• Some of these are tied up with the conception of crime itself; and will be dealt with in the next section.• For many, aspiration to higher things through promotion was tied up with the idea of a larger wage-packet.• Apart from that, everyone else is tied up with this extraordinary business at the Savoy. tie up loose ends• There are still a few loose ends to tie up before we have an agreement.• His new movie will tie up some of the loose ends from the last one. → tie up at tie1(8) |
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