bound是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 certain or extremely likely to happen -- 肯定的；極有可能的；必然的；註定了的

  • [ + to infinitive ] You're bound to forget people's names occasionally. 你肯定會偶爾忘記別人的名字。

  • You're bound to feel nervous about your interview. 面試時你很可能會感到緊張。

  • These two young musicians are bound for international success (= are certain to be successful). 這兩位年輕的音樂家一定會蜚聲國際。

  • They are bound and determined to build their own house someday. 他們堅信總有一天他們會蓋起自己的房子。

  • He's in the pub, I'll be bound. 我敢肯定他在酒吧。

• 1 having a moral or legal duty to do something -- 受束縛的，受約束的；（法律或道德上）有義務的

  • The company is bound by a special agreement to involve the union in important decisions. 公司受一項特殊協定的約束，須請工會參與重大決策。

  • She feels (duty)-bound to tell him everything. 她覺得自己有義務告訴他一切。

• 2 tied with rope, cord, string, etc. -- （用繩、線等）捆住的，綁住的

  • We found the girl bound and gagged. 我們發現女孩被綁住了，嘴也堵上了。

  • The book was bound in shiny green leather. 該書是用閃亮的綠皮面裝幀的。

• 3 going to -- 去…的；準備前往…的；開往…的

  • She was on a plane bound for Moscow when she got sick. 她在前往莫斯科的飛機上突然生病了。

• 4 to move quickly with large jumping movements -- 跳躍；跳動；跳躍著前進

• 5 to mark or form the limits of -- 形成…的疆界；成為…的界線

  • The town is bounded on one side by a river. 村莊的一邊以一條河為界。

• 6 past simple and past participle of bind verb -- （bind的過去式及過去分詞）

• 7 a quick, long jump -- 跳躍；跳動

  • With one bound the dog was over the fence. 那條狗一下就躍過了籬笆。

• 8 legal or social limits -- （法律或社會的）界限；限制；限定區域

  • The committee felt that newspaper coverage of the murder went beyond reasonable bounds. 委員會覺得報紙對謀殺案的報導超出了正常的範圍。

  • What you did was beyond/outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour. 你的所作所為令人無法接受。

  • His desire for political power apparently knows no bounds (= seems to be unlimited). 他對政治��力的慾望顯然沒有止境。

• 9 travelling in the stated direction -- 往…方向的

  • Northbound traffic is moving very slowly because of the accident. 由於交通事故，北上的車輛移動非常緩慢。

  • US The line did not close completely, but inbound and outbound trains (= trains which were arriving and leaving) had to share one of the two tracks near the station. 鐵路線沒有全部關閉，但進出站的火車只能使用車站附近兩條軌道中的一條。

• 10 (causing people to be) unable to leave a place because of an unwanted condition -- 受限於…的，不能離開…的

  • During his long illness he was completely housebound (= he could not leave the house). 久病期間，他只能一直呆在家裡。

  • She has been wheelchair-bound for several years. 她已經坐輪椅好幾年了。

  • The airport was completely fogbound (= covered by fog). 機場完全被大霧封住了。

• 11 used to describe a book that is covered or held together in the stated way -- …裝幀的，…裝訂的

  • a leather-bound book 皮面書

  • a spiral-bound notebook 螺旋鋼絲裝訂的筆記本

  • leather-bound cuffs 鑲皮邊的袖口