| 单词 | to be bound |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be bound 18. to be bound: to be under obligation, to have it as a duty, moral or legal, to do something. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > be bound by moral or legal tie [verb (intransitive)] shrive1338 to be boundc1360 to be holdena1375 to be obliged1398 oblige1548 obligate1955 c1360 Deo Gratias in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 125 To þonke and blesse hym we be bounde. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 291 Thow art ybounden..To helpe me. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) ii. 18 Soo moche arte thow more bonde and bounden to be good. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) x. 63 Princes, are not bound to communicate all matters. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 523 That she is bound in honor still to do. View more context for this quotation 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. liv. 230 I am not bound to assign the..motives of his..hatred. 1852 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation (ed. 2) ii. i. 158 Government..is bound to treat all its subjects alike. < as lemmas |
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