KEEP somebody IN A PLACEto have your freedomrestricted because of something you must do 受到某事的束缚
She felt chained to the kitchen sink.
她觉得就像被拴在灶台上一样。
I don’t want a job where I’m chained to a desk all day.
我不想要一份整天被拴在办公桌前的工作。
Examples from the Corpus
be chained to something• He was chained to a rock and his liver, though continually devoured by an eagle, never diminished.• How would you like to be chained to a stick and peddled up and down the street like a stuffeddoll?• After his trial the Quakerwas chained to a wheelbarrow and twice beaten by a Negroslave until he collapsed.• A few people thought that in the United States Negroes were chained to posts in the street.• Generatorstolen: Thieves stole a £1,000 generator which was chained toscaffolding at Bondgate, Darlington on Mondayafternoon.• A young man was chained to the back of the cart for pretending to be a priest.• They were chained to the wagon of taxes and services.