desk-bound
书桌椅,办公桌上摆放着的,办公桌上摆放的,办公桌上摆放着
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- : doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- : unfamiliar with actualities or practical matters outside one's own job: deskbound executives who can't grasp production problems.
- : noncombatant: deskbound generals.
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Examples
I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.
But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.
That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
A good many children seem to be like savages in distinguishing those to whom one is bound to speak the truth.
These officers are bound to maintayne themselves and families with food and rayment by their owne and their servant's industrie.
At his desk sat his secretary, who had been a witness of the interview, lost in wonder almost as great as the Seneschal's own.