Crimea has an ethnic Russian majority and long historical ties to Moscow.

克里米亚有俄罗斯民族人口，与莫斯科也有着历史渊源。

China has long tied its estimate of local officials on their ability to grow the economy.

长期以来，中国一直以促进经济增长的能力来评估地方官员。

On monetary policy, Roosevelt and the Congress decided that the dollar should no longer be tied to the price of gold.

在货币政策方面，罗斯福和国会决定，美元不应再与黄金价格挂钩。

What next? The handaxe is about to accompany us on a huge journey; because with all these skills, were no longer tied to our immediate environment.

下一步呢？这手斧将伴随着我们继续我们的伟大征途，因为拥有这些技能，我们将不再依赖于眼前的直接环境。

When you go flat, you are no longer tied to the physical world, and ideas and interfaces can take on a more abstract form.

当你变平时，你就不再受物理世界的束缚，想法和界面可以采用更抽象的形式。

Once the convention is brokered, the delegates are longer tied to their original candidate and are free to vote for whomever they want and all bets are off.

一旦开始协商会议, 各州的党代表们可以不按本州选民在初选时的选择进行投票，而是可以自由转投他人。一切都大不相同。

" To free (someone or something) up" means to make someone or something available; to change things so that they are no longer tied up;they're no longer busy.

“To free (someone or something) up” 意思是使某人或某物可用；改变事物，使他们不再被束缚； 他们不再忙碌。

I stopped halfway across and stood very still as I gazed across the East River, feeling briefly suspended, almost giddy with the sense of no longer being tied to any place at all.

我走到一半停下来， 一动不动地站着， 凝视着东河对岸，感觉短暂地悬浮了起来， 几乎头晕目眩， 感觉自己不再被束缚在任何地方。

Mr. Werber, a 76-year-old retired information technology worker, had come to Saturday services and, as usual, Cecil and David Rosenthal, two brothers with long ties to the congregation, were just inside, greeting people and handing out prayer books.

76岁的退休IT工作者韦尔贝先生原本是来参加周六的礼拜的，像往常一样，塞西尔和大卫·罗森塔尔，他的两个老会友，也来了，他们问候了其他会友，同时分发了祈祷书。