Tie everything down, secure your cars.

把所有东西都固定好，管好你们的车。

They need to tie it down.

他们需要把它系起来。

I don't like being tied down, you know?

我不喜欢被束缚 你明白吗？

How can I reflect when my hand's tied down?

我的手被绑住了，怎么反省呢？

Some said they were not informed, others that they were tied down.

一些人说她们不知情，另一些人说她们被绑住强迫实施了绝育。

She tied down the cover, and fastened a tin cup to it.

她把盖子绑紧，再在上面系上一个杯子。

Still the land could not tie them down or call them back.

但这片土地还是没能拴住他们或是召回他们。

It came up while we were tied down on the impeachment trial.

当时疫情爆发时我们正关注弹劾审判。

For example, you can be tied down by your employment or some other tasks.

例如，你可能会被你的工作或其他一些任务所束缚。

Because your grandpa tied the money down. He felt that the Crawley family had quite enough.

因为你外公把钱都栓住了。他认为卡劳利家族拿走的钱够多了。

In this second example, tied down refers to a long period of time.

在第二个例子中，“tied down”指的是一段很长的时间。

To keep them from flying off in their sleep they had to be tied down to the bed.

为了防止他们在睡梦中飞走，他们不得不被绑在床上。

But what about those people who haven't tied the knot and are not tied down?

但那些没有喜结连理、没有被束缚的人怎么办？

Not really, it's just that he doesn't want to be tied down.

不太清楚，只是他不想被束缚。

For example, you might say, " I'm going to be tied down here for the next few hours."

例如，你可能会说，“我将在接下来的几个小时里被绑在这里。”

You can be tied down for an afternoon, a week, a month, or for years, depending on the situation.

你可以被束缚一下午、一周、一个月或几年，视情况而定。

But you might also say, " He didn't get married because he didn't want to get tied down."

但你也可能会说，“他没有结婚因为他不想被束缚。”

Whether you're feeling tied down or footloose and fancy-free, that's it for this week's Words and Their Stories.

无论你是感觉到束缚还是自由自在，这就是本周的《词汇掌故》。

If you are tied down, that means there are important things you must do, and those things prevent you from doing something else.

如果你被束缚住了，那就意味着你必须做一些重要的事情，而这些事情会阻止你做其他事情。

Everything pulled in and tied down.

一切都被拉了下来。