1. 鏈條;鏈子 A chain consists of metal rings connected together in a line.
e.g. His open shirt revealed a fat gold chain... 他的襯衫敞著(zhù)，露出一條很粗的金鏈。 e.g. 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。
2. 手銬；鐐銬 If prisoners are in chains, they have thick rings of metal round their wrists or ankles to prevent them from escaping.
e.g. He'd spent four and a half years in windowless cells, much of the time in chains. 他已經(jīng)在沒(méi)有窗戶(hù)的牢房里呆了4年半，多數時(shí)間都戴著(zhù)鐐銬。
3. 約束;羈絆;顧慮 You can refer to feelings and duties which prevent you from doing what you want to do as chains .
e.g. He had to break right now the chains of habit that bound him to the present. 他必須現在就打破把他束縛在當前境況的習慣。
4. 用鏈子捆住;把…拴起來(lái) If a person or thing is chained to something, they are fastened to it with a chain.
e.g. The dog was chained to the leg of the one solid garden seat... 狗被拴在公園一個(gè)固定座位的腿上。 e.g. She chained her bike to the railings... 她把自行車(chē)鎖在欄桿上。
5. 一連串;一排 A chain of things is a group of them existing or arranged in a line.
chain的解釋
e.g. ...a chain of islands known as the Windward Islands... 名為“向風(fēng)群島”的島群 e.g. Students tried to form a human chain around the parliament. 學(xué)生們試圖在議會(huì )四周?chē)扇藟Α?/p>
6. 連鎖店;連鎖集團 A chain of shops, hotels, or other businesses is a number of them owned by the same person or company.
e.g. ...a large supermarket chain. 大型連鎖超市 e.g. ...Italy's leading chain of cinemas. 意大利最大的連鎖影院
7. 一連串;一系列 A chain of events is a series of them happening one after another.
chain是什么意思
e.g. ...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
8. see also: food chain
相關(guān)詞組：chain up
chain英英釋義
noun
1. a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
2. a necklace made by a stringing objects together
e.g. a string of beads a strand of pearls
Synonym: stringstrand
3. anything that acts as a restraint
4. a linked or connected series of objects
e.g. a chain of daisies
5. (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
6. a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
e.g. the chain of command a complicated concatenation of circumstances
Synonym: concatenation
7. (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
Synonym: chemical chain
8. a series of hills or mountains
e.g. the valley was between two ranges of hills the plains lay just beyond the mountain range
Synonym: rangemountain rangerange of mountainsmountain chainchain of mountains