chain是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a set of connected or related things -- 一連串，一系列（的事物）

  • She has built up a chain of 180 bookshops across the country. 她在全國各地開了180家連鎖書店。

  • His resignation was followed by a remarkable chain of events. 在他辭職之後，發生了一系列引人注目的事件。

• 1 (a length of) rings usually made of metal that are connected together and used for fastening, pulling, supporting, or limiting freedom, or as jewellery -- 鏈條，鏈子；鎖鏈；項鍊

  • The gates were locked with a padlock and a heavy steel chain. 大門被一把掛鎖和一根沉重的鋼鏈鎖著。

  • Put the chain on the door if you are alone in the house. 你要是一個人在家就把鏈子鉤在門上。

  • Mary was wearing a beautiful silver chain around her neck. 瑪麗脖子上戴著一條漂亮的銀項鍊。

  • The hostages were kept in chains for 23 hours a day. 人質一天裡有23小時戴著鐐銬。

  • At last the country has freed itself from the chains of the authoritarian regime. 這個國家最終從獨裁政權的束縛中解放了出來。

• 2 a situation in which someone selling a house cannot complete the sale because the person who wants to buy it needs to sell their house first -- 售屋鏈（指賣家無法售出房屋，原因是買家尚未售出自己的房屋）

  • Some sellers refuse to exchange contracts with buyers who are in a chain. 有些賣家拒絕和售屋鏈裡的買家成交。

• 3 to fasten someone or something using a chain -- 用鏈條鎖住，拴住；束縛

  • It's so cruel to keep a pony chained up like that all the time. 把一匹小馬一直那樣拴著真是太殘忍了。

  • They chained themselves to lampposts in protest at the judge's decision. 為了抗議法官的判決，他們把自己拴在燈柱上。

  • figurative I don't want a job where I'm chained to a desk for eight hours a day. 我不想要一份一天八小時都被拴在辦公桌前的工作。