Bind

(noun.) something that hinders as if with bonds.

(verb.) form a chemical bond with; 'The hydrogen binds the oxygen'.

(verb.) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; 'The Chinese would bind the feet of their women'.

(verb.) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.

(verb.) provide with a binding; 'bind the books in leather'.

(verb.) create social or emotional ties; 'The grandparents want to bond with the child'.

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• I urged my companions to prepare for the wreck of our little skiff, and to bind themselves to some oar or spar which might suffice to float them. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Did He not say that his mission, in all ages, was to bind up the broken-hearted, and set at liberty them that are bruised? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The amber heart, please; I must bind it to the chain. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They are welcome, said Locksley; our laws bind none but ourselves. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It was of coarse sealskin--the straight-haired skin, with a leather thong to bind it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His ruling thought, his great contribution to political literature, was that the moral obligations upon ordinary men cannot bind princes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And I'm bound to say Lily DOES distract it: I believe he'd marry her tomorrow if he found out there was anything wrong with Bertha. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I sat gazing at him, spell-bound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This boy must be bound, out of hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• 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.
• From what we know of mankind, we are bound to conclude that the first sailors plundered when they could, and traded when they had to. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To account for your own hard-heartedness and ingratitude in such a case, you are bound to prove the other party's crime. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The idea did not originate in my own discernment, I am bound to confess, but in a speech of Rosa Dartle's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In 1890 this was increased to 3,000 self-binding harvesters, 4,000 reapers, and 2,000 mowers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• At least he thought that the binding was secure. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Once on such an occasion Caroline had said to him, looking up from the luxuriant creeper she was binding to its frame, Ah! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Man was binding himself into new and larger and more efficient combinations indeed, but at a price. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The paper industry, with book binding machines, and paper box machines, is a fertile field of invention. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• These antique guns were made by welding longitudinal bars of iron together and binding them by iron rings shrunk on while hot. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is my right to speak as I think proper; nothing binds me to converse as you dictate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The double motion is a kind of a double tie, and binds the objects together in the closest and most intimate manner. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The second is the invention of money, which binds together all the relations between civilized societies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The same promise, then, which binds them to obedience, ties them down to a particular person, and makes him the object of their allegiance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The tie that binds these engines into one great family is temperature. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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