(figurative)I've been chained to my desk all week (= because there was so much work) .
我整個星期都在伏案工作，脫不開身。
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The doors were always locked and chained.
那些門總是上著鎖鏈。
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She chained her bicycle to the gate.
她用鏈子把自行車鎖在大門上。
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The dog was chained up for the night.
夜間那條狗用鏈子拴起來。
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a chain of command (= a system in an organization by which instructions are passed from one person to another)
指揮系統(tǒng)
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mountain/island chains
山脈；島群
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Volunteers formed a human chain to rescue precious items from the burning house.
志愿者排成一條長龍，從著火的房子里手傳手把貴重物品搶救出來。
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a chain of supermarkets/a supermarket chain
連鎖超市
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the chains of fear/misery
恐懼的桎梏；苦難的枷鎖
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a short length of chain
一截短鏈條
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She wore a heavy gold chain around her neck.
她戴著一條粗實的金項鏈。
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The mayor wore his chain of office.
市長佩戴著標志他職務的鏈徽。
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a bicycle chain
自行車鏈條
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The prisoners were kept in chains (= with chains around their arms and legs, to prevent them from escaping) .
囚犯戴著鐐銬。
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to set in motion a chain of events
觸發(fā)一連串的事件
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Students tried to form a human chain around the parliament.
學生們試圖在議會四周圍成人墻。
...a large supermarket chain.
大型連鎖超市
...Italy's leading chain of cinemas.
意大利最大的連鎖影院
...the bizarre chain of events that led to his departure in January 1938.
促使他于1938年1月離去的一連串離奇事件
...a chain of islands known as the Windward Islands...
名為“向風群島”的島群
She chained her bike to the railings...
她把自行車鎖在欄桿上。
His open shirt revealed a fat gold chain...
他的襯衫敞著，露出一條很粗的金鏈。
The dogs were leaping and growling at the full stretch of their chains.
那些狗又蹦又叫，把鏈子繃得緊緊的。
He'd spent four and a half years in windowless cells, much of the time in chains.
他已經(jīng)在沒有窗戶的牢房里呆了4年半，多數(shù)時間都戴著鐐銬。
He had to break right now the chains of habit that bound him to the present.
他必須現(xiàn)在就打破把他束縛在當前境況的習慣。
The dog was chained to the leg of the one solid garden seat...
狗被拴在公園一個固定座位的腿上。
On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Big fast food chains in New York City have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts , but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文But their beds were provided by private individuals, rather than a hotel chain
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t
2016年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section BThat's the vision of a hotel chain that plans to send digital keys to guests' phones via an app instead of making them check in and get the traditional plastic swipe cards.
2015年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section Acut the salary of senior executivesrelocate some of its chain storesadjust its promotion strategiesreduce the size of its staffTo experiment on its new business concept.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文In less-developed countries, such as those of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, wastage tends to occur primarily at the farmer-producer end of the supply chain.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文They run chain stores in central London.
出自-2011年12月聽力原文Iced coffees sold by some popular chains are contaminated.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) conducted a survey of iced coffees sold by some popular chains in Britain including Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa Coffee to gauge the calories as studies increasingly link obesity with cancer
出自-2010年12月聽力原文But after General mills bought Epic in 2016, Collins and Forrest suddenly had the resources they needed to expand their supply chain.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section BIn addition to supplying milk from their own 85-head herd, they began to help other farmers in the area convent from conventional to certified organic and grass-fed in order to enter the Maple Hill supply chain.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section BMacy's reported its sales plunged 5.2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wide—ranging challenges.
2017年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section COnce one person looks at their phone, other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a chain reaction.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section BPenguins, like other seabirds and marine mammals, occupy higher levels in the food chain and they are what we call bio-indicators of their ecosystems.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section CThe partnership benefits both sides by allowing unconventional partners for example, two companies from two different industries to work together on a specific aspect of the value chain, like, in this example, an engine firm with an accessory one.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section BWhen they started researching the supply chain, they learned that only 2-3% of all Bison is actually grass-fed.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section BAlthough the main attraction was the soup, Roze's chain shops also set a new standard for dining out.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ"the chain of command"
"a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
"the valley was between two ranges of hills"
"the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
"a string of beads"
"a strand of pearls";
"Chain the chairs together"
