tying up

基本解釋

I read an article that recommended tying up your dog outside in front of your house on Halloween night to keep pranksters away.
我讀過(guò)一篇文章說(shuō)在萬(wàn)聖節(jié)之夜把你的狗狗綁到屋子外麪來(lái)防止他人的惡作劇。
Most other countries thought this would only complicate matters, particularly if it means tying up Greek assets due for privatisation.
大多數(shù)其他國(guó)家想這麼做衹能將事件複襍化，尤其如果它意味著爲(wèi)了預(yù)期的私有化而綑綁希臘資産。
By this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she then purchased him a pair of shoes, and tying up the remaining pairs of socks, gave them to the boy.
這時(shí)，店員也取來(lái)了襪子，她把一雙穿到了男孩的腳上，又爲(wèi)他買(mǎi)了一雙鞋子，然後綑好賸餘的襪子遞給了男孩，女士拍著他的頭說(shuō)：“小朋友，現(xiàn)在一定感到舒服多了吧？”

Vigo's chief executive, Mario Trujillo, blames Western Union's heavy-handed tactic of tying up its agents.
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Anxious about tying up the line, Arty nevertheless announced that it was his birthday.
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At the same time, farming was hugely labor-intensive, tying up almost half the American workforce.
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