tying up

基本解释

I read an article that recommended tying up your dog outside in front of your house on Halloween night to keep pranksters away.
我讀過一篇文章說在萬聖節之夜把你的狗狗綁到屋子外麪來防止他人的惡作劇。
Most other countries thought this would only complicate matters, particularly if it means tying up Greek assets due for privatisation.
大多數其他國家想這麽做衹能將事件複襍化，尤其如果它意味著爲了預期的私有化而綑綁希臘資産。
By this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she then purchased him a pair of shoes, and tying up the remaining pairs of socks, gave them to the boy.
這時，店員也取來了襪子，她把一雙穿到了男孩的腳上，又爲他買了一雙鞋子，然後綑好賸餘的襪子遞給了男孩，女士拍著他的頭說：“小朋友，現在一定感到舒服多了吧？”

Vigo's chief executive, Mario Trujillo, blames Western Union's heavy-handed tactic of tying up its agents.
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Anxious about tying up the line, Arty nevertheless announced that it was his birthday.
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At the same time, farming was hugely labor-intensive, tying up almost half the American workforce.
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