Tether
['teðə] or ['tɛðɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
(v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.
手打:柯尔斯顿
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Tedder.
校對:卢埃林
解釋/意思:
n. a rope or chain for tying a beast while feeding within certain limits.—v.t. to confine with a tether: to restrain within certain limits.
校對:罗杰
例句/造句/用法:
- A lasso was then thrown over the neck of a mule, when he would immediately go to the length of his tether, first one end, then the other in the air. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But I've got to the end of my tether, and I must have advice. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- For I can't go on in this way much longer, you know--I'm nearly at the end of my tether. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I could clip the wings or tether them by one leg when I used them for calling. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I'm desperate--I'm at the end of my tether. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- An elderly nursemaid and two children were standing in a corner of the enclosure, looking at a lean goat tethered to the grass. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Have you not tethered a young kid under a tree, lain above it with your rifle, and waited for the bait to bring up your tiger? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Animals are tied or tethered by it and led by it, and man, himself, is one of its victims. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Tiber, the road which is spread by nature's own hand, threading her continent, was at my feet, and many a boat was tethered to the banks. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- There was a smell within, coming up from the floor, of tethered beasts, like the smell of a menagerie of wild animals. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
手打:波莱特