Tie

(noun.) a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied; 'he needed a tie for the packages'.

(noun.) a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating; 'he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam'.

(noun.) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; 'the British call a railroad tie a sleeper'.

(noun.) (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value.

(noun.) equality of score in a contest.

(verb.) form a knot or bow in; 'tie a necktie'.

(verb.) limit or restrict to; 'I am tied to UNIX'; 'These big jets are tied to large airports'.

(verb.) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.; 'The teams drew a tie'.

(verb.) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; 'They tied their victim to the chair'.

(verb.) unite musical notes by a tie.

(verb.) make by tying pieces together; 'The fishermen tied their flies'.

巴贝奇录入

• The tie between the Dagonets, the du Lacs of Maryland, and their aristocratic Cornish kinsfolk, the Trevennas, had always remained close and cordial. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I don't,' said Boffin, in a free-handed manner, 'want to tie a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--down too tight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Give it to me, and let me put a paper round it, and tie it to my umbrella with my shade;--there, now. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was lost upon Sikes, who was stooping at the moment to tie the boot-lace which the dog had torn. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Thus assisted, she skipped down with much agility, and began to tie her double chin into her bonnet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• After spelling it out slowly, the man made it into a little roll, and tied it up in an end of his neckerchief still more slowly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Every shilling of my money is tied up. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They were all marked and docketed, and tied with red tape. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The early plants were tied, and most lowly plants to-day are tied, by the conditions of their life cycle, to water. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There's a hackney-coachman downstairs with a black eye, and a tied-up head, vowing he'll have the law of you. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• By another ingenious device the cord was tied and cut, when the sewing was completed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• You mean of family ties? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• That she was, if there were any ties of blood in such a case, the child's aunt. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They speak one language, and are related by blood and other ties. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• By the ties of the past and the charities of the present. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Where's your law for tying it up then? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She was much given to tying up her head in a pocket-handkerchief, knotted under the chin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Robert Jordan went to where Pablo was tying the horses. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In very early times men must have used some kinds of cords or lines for fishing, for tying animals, at times for tying men. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• While he was tying she cried, I cannot stop it! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Yes, I think I could do it by tying on this pail. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• When Little Dorrit had her work on the table, and Maggy hers on the bedstead, Fanny fell to tying her bonnet as a preliminary to her departure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

校对:克劳斯