tether是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)be at the end of your tether筋疲力尽；智穷力竭；山穷水尽

双语例句

(1)The dog's tether had been broken.

那只狗的拴链坏掉了。

(2)My phone is tethered to my laptop.

我的手机连在我笔记本电脑上。

(3)I tethered a ferocious dog.

我拴住了一条凶猛的狗。

(4)The officer dismounted, tethering his horse to a tree.

军官下了马 把它拴到一棵树上

(5)She was jealous, humiliated, and emotionally at the end of her tether.

她觉得又嫉妒又屈辱，情绪低落至极。

(6)He's at the end of his tether.

他没着儿了。

(7)Not confined or restricted with a tether.

没有被绳、链等限制或者束缚。

(8)Poor girl, she looked at the end of her tether.

可怜的女孩，她看来已到了走投无路的感觉了。

(9)Give us a longer tether to see if we could do more.

给我们更大空间，看看我们是否能做得更多。

同义词

n. 范围；系链；拴绳

释义

n.

a rope or chain with which an animal is tied to restrict its movement

（拴动物的）拴绳，拴链。

v.

tie (an animal) with a rope or chain so as to restrict its movement

（用绳、链）拴（动物）

the horse had been tethered to a post.

马被拴在一根柱子上。

短语

the end of one's tether 见ＥＮＤ.

词源

"late Middle English： from Old Norse tjóthr, from a Germanic base meaning ‘fasten’."

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英文释义：tie an animal to a post so that it cannot move very far; \na rope or chain used to tie an animal to something, allowing it to move around in a small area

真题例句：

The handrail could be completely pulled off and the safety tether might break, and I might therefore be pushed into space.

扶手可能会被完全拉开，安全系绳可能会断裂，因此我可能会被推入太空。[2018年 温州卷 阅读理解D]

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( 1)v/n. 拴绳; 系绳

英文释义：tie an animal to a post so that it cannot move very far; \na rope or chain used to tie an animal to something, allowing it to move around in a small area