| 词组 | bind |
| 释义 | bind [bound, bound, binding] bind over 1. bind over sb • bind sb over usually passive BrE informal if someone is bound over by a court or judge, they are given an official order to cause no more trouble and threatened with punishment if they do: ▪ The brothers, aged 24 and 27, denied the offence but were bound over for six months. be bound over to keep the peace ▪ Campbell was arrested and bound over to keep the peace for three months. 2. be bound over for trial AmE formal to be taken to a court of law in order to be judged to see if you are guilty of a crime: ▪ Gugliatto, 35, was bound over for trial on charges of aiding an escaped criminal. be bound to be bound to sth/sb formal to have made a formal agreement or promise to obey something or someone: ▪ I'm afraid that you have signed a contract and therefore you are bound to it. ▪ Miller started the society, and its members were bound by oaths to him personally. bind up bind sth up • bind up sth to wrap a piece of cloth around a wound, in order to stop it bleeding or to protect it: ▪ Shelley washed the wound very thoroughly and bound it up with a clean dressing. ▪ In the end Gareth had to sit down on the grass and bind his ankle up with rags. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑bandage up be bound up in/with be bound up in/with sth to be so involved in a particular situation that you cannot think of anything else: ▪ Joanna's too bound up in her own problems to be able to help us at the moment. ■ SIMILAR TO: be wrapped up in be bound up with be bound up with sth to be closely connected with a particular idea, activity, situation etc: ▪ The history of the mill is closely bound up with that of the Williams family, who owned it from 1840-1947. ▪ Religion and morality are inescapably bound up with one another. |
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