chained [
tʃeind]
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- He is chained to his work.
他工作忙得不能分身。 - He chained his bicycle to the post.
他把自行车拴到柱子上。
chained[ adj ]
bound with chains
<adj.all>
enchained demons strained in anger to gnaw on his bonesprisoners in chains
Chain \Chain\, v. t. [imp. p. p. {Chained} (ch[=a]nd); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Chaining}.]
1. To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or
bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
Chained behind the hostile car. --Prior.
2. To keep in slavery; to enslave.
And which more blest? who chained his country, say
Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day? --Pope.
3. To unite closely and strongly.
And in this vow do chain my soul to thine. --Shak.
4. (Surveying) To measure with the chain.
5. To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
chained \chained\ adj.
bound with chains; as, prisoners chained together to prevent
escape.
Syn: enchained, in chains(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
- A man who chained himself to his sofa for three weeks to stop smoking is a free man today and says it feels wonderful to have kicked the habit.
- He said both men were well despite being chained and blindfolded.
- At least two dozen protesters chained themselves to doors or blocked exits with their wheelchairs Monday.
- The Coast Guard made the arrests Sunday after an activist from the environmental group Greenpeace chained herself to a crane on the research vessel Aloha, about a mile off the mouth of the Rogue River at Gold Beach.
- Shortly afterward, a half-dozen protesters chained themselves to the fence of a psychology building where other research is conducted.
- I was chained to the wall and had this little bed to lie on, a few blankets, no light.
- Police made no arrests and said Mr. Martin would apparently be allowed to stay chained to the downtown HUD building.
- Two former hostages in Lebanon today put on blindfolds and chained themselves to a tree outside the Iranian Embassy to protest the captivity of Terry Anderson, the U.S. journalist abducted five years ago.
- The city evicted the agency from a former furniture store on the edge of town Friday and chained the doors.
- An Arkansas sheriff, driven to frustration, chained his surplus jail inmates to a state penitentiary fence.
- Prisoners are kept chained to the walls of local police lockups for as long as three days at a time because of overcrowding in regular jail cells, police said.
- 'One day,' she tells him, 'you will find yourself chained up and I won't be there any more.'
- Former hostages chained themselves to a tree in Paris to protest Anderson's captivity, and President Bush pledged to work for the hostages' release.
- The university had the concrete torn up _ twice _ and had four activists who chained themselves to the slab arrested.
- Activists claim the calves are chained and force-fed drug-laden food before their slaughter at age four months.
- The workers who testified Wednesday said they thought they would be killed when two men drew sawed-off shotguns from under their long coats and chained the doors.
- Some demonstrators sat in the waiting room singing hymns, Ms. Petzelt said, while the five men went to the back and chained themselves together, fastening the chains with half-inch-thick steel locks.
- "We do not need a union with somebody chained to it, because that would lead to a constant attempt to break those chains," Revenko said.
- Those intellectuals who argue otherwise should be locked indoors and chained to their typewriters.
- Scrawny dogs, chained to the vans, lay quiet in the dust. We found three stalls run by expatriate British.
- A Greenpeace protester boarded a research ship Sunday and chained herself to a tower on the boat studying marine mining potential off the Oregon coast, authorities said.
- Now, the 42-year-old Springfield man has had himself chained to a 280-pound sofa in his living room and rid his home of tobacco.
- By Wednesday evening, the four were still chained to the embassy gates as Guatemalan National Police officers looked on.
- Gary Heidnik is charged with keeping four women chained to a sewer pipe in a basement torture chamber and killing two others.
- The last two people removed from the center were chained together for 12 hours and were carried out at about 8:30 p.m., police said.
- Four other rebels, chained but alive, told the military of a purge among the communists in Mindanao that, in its brutality, was unprecedented in the party's 20-year history.
- On Tuesday, five Greenpeace members were arrested after they chained a dinghy to the rear of a sewage barge and a protester to a mooring line, police said.
- Ninety anti-abortion protesters were carried away on police stretchers in St. Petersburg, Fla., including 23 who chained themselves to the doors of a clinic with special bicycle locks almost impossible to cut with normal tools.
- The Louisville girl, who was returned to her father, told police she had been held against her will for three weeks, chained to a tree and raped repeatedly.
- The pet is then thrown outside to fend for itself or chained to a dog house or taken to a shelter where it is deemed unadoptable because no one wants to take on someone else's "problems."