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tide-bound

/tahyd-bound/US // ˈtaɪdˌbaʊnd //

受潮,潮州,潮汐,潮水般涌来

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : grounded or otherwise confined at low tide.

Examples

  • But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.

  • That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

  • Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.

  • They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.

  • Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.

  • 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.

  • His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.