tether
英 ['tee?]
美['t?e?]
- n. 范圍；系鏈；拴繩
- vt. 用繩或鏈拴住
- n. (Tether)人名；(英)特瑟
TEM8GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?tethers;第三人稱單數(shù):?tethers;過去式:?tethered;過去分詞:?tethered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?tethering;
助記提示
1. 諧音“特韌兒、太韌兒”----系繩、系鏈特別有韌性。
2. tight => tet- + her => tether.
3. gather => gether => to + gether => together => tether.
4. to + gether => tether.
5. tie + gather / gether => tether.
6. tie => tether.
2. tight => tet- + her => tether.
3. gather => gether => to + gether => together => tether.
4. to + gether => tether.
5. tie + gather / gether => tether.
6. tie => tether.
中文詞源
tether 拴繩
可能來自古諾斯語 tjothr,拴繩，來自 Proto-Germanic*teudran,繩子，來自 PIE*deu,綁緊，系牢， *tro,工具格后綴，詞源同 rudder.
英英釋意
- 1. restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
英文詞源
- tether (n.)
- late 14c., "rope for fastening an animal," not found in Old English, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse tjoer "tether," from Proto-Germanic *teudran (cognates: Danish t?ir, Old Swedish tiuther, Swedish tjuder, Old Frisian tiader, Middle Dutch tuder, Dutch tuier "line, rope," Old High German zeotar "pole of a cart"), from PIE root *deu- "to fasten" + instrumentive suffix *-tro-. Figurative sense of "measure of one's limitations" is attested from 1570s.
- tether (v.)
- late 14c. (implied in tethering), "confine by a tether," originally of grazing animals, from tether (n.). Figurative use also from late 14c. Related: Tethered.
詞組搭配
the end of one's tether
見 end
實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句
- She was jealous, humiliated, and emotionally at the end of her tether...
- 她既忌妒又感到屈辱，感情上已經(jīng)到了崩潰的邊緣。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- I've reached the end of my tether.
- 我已經(jīng)無計(jì)可施了。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The officer dismounted, tethering his horse to a tree.
- 軍官下了馬，把它拴到一棵樹上。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- The cow had broken her tether and was in the cornfield.
- 那牛弄斷了系繩,跑到玉米田里去了.
辭典例句
- But Morel was too exasperated, at the end of his tether, to answer.
- 莫雷爾已經(jīng)火冒三丈, 忍無可忍, 顧不上答理他.
期刊摘選
- The answer is that the tether system is potentially more efficient, however paradoxical it may appear.
- 答案在于纜索系統(tǒng)的效率可能較高, 不管這看來多麼矛盾.
期刊摘選
- That's beyond my tether.
- 那是我力所不及的.
期刊摘選
- The duck takes off , hoisting the rabbit into the air at the end of the tether.
- 憤怒的鴨子一把抓起兔子,用盡氣力把它扔到了遠(yuǎn)處.
期刊摘選
- I'm at the end of my tether. I shall go mad if this goes on.
- 我已經(jīng)走投無路. 再這么下去,我會(huì)發(fā)瘋的.
辭典例句
- I was now at the end of my tether.
- 這時(shí)我已智窮力竭.
辭典例句
- This is beyond my tether.
- 這是我力所不能及的.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- I'm at the end of my tether.
- 我已經(jīng)走投無路.
辭典例句
- A succession of illnesses has brought Joy to the end of her tether.
- 一連害了好幾場(chǎng)病,喬伊的身體已變得孱弱不堪,再也無法支撐下去了.
期刊摘選
- The cow had broken its tether and was cornfield.
- 那頭牛弄斷系繩跑到玉米田里去了.
期刊摘選
- Everyone is at the end of their tether with their appalling behaviour.
- 對(duì)于他們的卑劣行為,大家已忍無可忍.
期刊摘選
- Frank really must have been very near the end of his tether when he finally resigned.
- 弗蘭克一定是到了忍無可忍的地步才最終辭職的.
期刊摘選
- The astronauts walked in outer space without a tether.
- 宇航員在沒有系繩的情況下進(jìn)行太空行走.
期刊摘選
- She is at the end of her tether.
- 她已經(jīng)智窮技竭.
期刊摘選
- He's at the end of his tether.
- 他沒著兒了.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- The cow had broken its tether and was in the cornfield.
- 那頭牛弄斷系繩,跑到玉米田里去了.
《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- ENRICO LORENZINI and JUAN SANMART í N have worked together for a decade on tether projects.
- 羅倫茲尼和桑馬丁合作研究纜索計(jì)畫已有10年.
期刊摘選
- The animals were fastened by tether.
- 那群牲畜被繩子拴著.
期刊摘選
- Look at this, like, wow . I must have really snapped the tether.
- 看這個(gè), 就像, 哇我脫離了束縛,對(duì)吧?
期刊摘選
- We should tether our plan to our resources.
- 我們應(yīng)把我們的計(jì)劃限定在自己財(cái)力所允許的范圍內(nèi).
期刊摘選
- Until this was accomplished, the Eighth Army had reached the end of its tether.
- 在這項(xiàng)工作完成時(shí), 第八集團(tuán)軍已經(jīng)是強(qiáng)弩之末了.
辭典例句
- It'seems that i am at the end of my tether.
- 看起來我已經(jīng)無路可走了.
期刊摘選
- I'm nearly at the end of my tether.
- 我已經(jīng)到了山窮水盡的邊緣.
辭典例句
- She was jealous, humiliated, and emotionally at the end of her tether.
- 她既忌妒又感到屈辱，感情上已經(jīng)到了崩潰的邊緣。
柯林斯例句
- I've reached the end of my tether.
- 我已經(jīng)無計(jì)可施了。
柯林斯例句