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desk-bound

/desk-bound/US // ˈdɛskˌbaʊnd //

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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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.