tether
tether 英 [ˈteðə(r)] 美 [ˈtɛðɚ]
n. 范围；系链；拴绳 vt. 用绳或链拴住
进行时:tethering 过去式:tethered 过去分词:tethered 第三人称单数:tethers 名词复数:tethers
- Both a verb and a noun, tether keeps things tied together, or is the tie itself. Remember, when you tether that chair to those balloons, use a strong tether. You don't want to drop from the sky because you tied them together using a cheap piece of rope.
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- n. 范围；系链；拴绳
- vt. 用绳或链拴住
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1. We should tether our plan to our resources.
我们应把我们的计划限定在自己财力所允许的范围内。
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2. He has proposed a way to divert asteroids and other threatening objects by attaching a long tether and ballast.
他提议了一种可以让小行星和其他危险物品转向的方法--拴上系链和重物。
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3. When the astronauts go to the comet, they can’t land on it due to its weak gravity, so instead they tether themselves to it (I literally cheered when I saw that scene in the theater).
当宇航员们到达彗星时，由于小星体的低重力他们无法降落，所以他们只能互相栓在一起慢慢靠近彗星。
- tether (n.) late 14c., "rope for fastening an animal," not found in Old English, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse tjoðr "tether," from Proto-Germanic *teudran (source also of Danish tøir, Old Swedish tiuther, Swedish tjuder, Old Frisian tiader, Middle Dutch tuder, Dutch tuier "line, rope," Old High German zeotar "pole of a cart"), from PIE root *deu- "to fasten" + instrumentive suffix *-tro-. Figurative sense of "measure of one's limitations" is attested from 1570s.
- tether (v.) late 14c. (implied in tethering), "confine by a tether," originally of grazing animals, from tether (n.). Figurative use also from late 14c. Related: Tethered.
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