Today, my brother and his friend ambushed me, tied me to a chair, and put a sock in my mouth.

今天，我的哥哥和他的伙计偷袭了我，把我绑在椅子上，还拿袜子堵住了我的嘴。

They tied me down and put a piece of rubber in my mouth to bite on.

他们将我捆住，嘴里塞一块橡胶用来紧咬着。

As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, "This one came out first."

到生产的时候，一个孩子伸出一只手来；收生婆拿红线拴在他手上，说：“这是头生的。”

He called all the sons together and put a tightly tied bundle of sticks on the floor in front of them.

他把四个儿子都叫来，又把一捆扎得很紧的细树枝放在他们面前的地上。

If you put a bladder that is filled with air and tied up, into the pipe of a heated stove, the air inside will expand so much as to burst the bladder with a loud report.

如果你在一只气球里充满空气，把它扎紧，然后放到火炉旁边给它加热，气囊里面的空气会剧烈地膨胀，以致最后爆裂，发出巨大的响声。