chain是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a set of connected or related things -- 一连串，一系列（的事物）

  • She has built up a chain of 180 bookshops across the country. 她在全国各地开了180家连锁书店。

  • His resignation was followed by a remarkable chain of events. 在他辞职之后，发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 -- 链条，链子；锁链；项链

  • The gates were locked with a padlock and a heavy steel chain. 大门被一把挂锁和一根沉重的钢链锁着。

  • Put the chain on the door if you are alone in the house. 你要是一个人在家就把链子钩在门上。

  • Mary was wearing a beautiful silver chain around her neck. 玛丽脖子上戴着一条漂亮的银项链。

  • The hostages were kept in chains for 23 hours a day. 人质们一天里有23小时戴着镣铐。

  • At last the country has freed itself from the chains of the authoritarian regime. 这个国家最终从独裁政权的束缚中解放了出来。

• 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 -- 售屋链（指卖家无法售出房屋，原因是买家尚未售出自己的房屋）

  • Some sellers refuse to exchange contracts with buyers who are in a chain. 有些卖家拒绝和售屋链里的买家成交。

• 3 to fasten someone or something using a chain -- 用链条锁住，拴住；束缚

  • It's so cruel to keep a pony chained up like that all the time. 把一匹小马驹一直那样拴着真是太残忍了。

  • They chained themselves to lampposts in protest at the judge's decision. 为了抗议法官的判决，他们把自己拴在了灯柱上。

  • 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8小时都被拴在办公桌前的工作。