词典释义：
a connected flexible series of metal links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads
链子，链条。
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枷锁，镣铐
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the drug dealer is being kept in chains .这个毒品贩被戴上了镣铐。
such a series of links worn as a decoration or badge of office
（作装饰或公职标志的）项链。
〈喻〉 约束，束缚
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workers secured by the chains of the labour market .被劳动力市场束缚的工人。
a sequence of items of the same type forming a line
一连串，一系列（同类物）
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he kept the chain of buckets supplied with water .他使这一串水桶一直有水供应。
a sequence or series of connected elements
一连串，一系列（相关元素）；连锁
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the action would initiate a chain of events.
这一行动将引发一连串事件。
a group of hotels or shops owned by the same company
（某公司下属的）连锁旅馆或商店，联号
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the agency is part of a nationwide chain .这家代理行是全国连锁中的一个部分。
a part of a molecule consisting of a number of atoms (typically carbon) bonded together in a linear sequence
分子链。
a figure in a quadrille or similar dance, in which dancers meet and pass each other in a continuous sequence
转链动作（方阵舞或类似舞蹈中的一组动作，舞者周而复始地相遇后互相擦肩而过）。
a connected series of mountains
山链
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a mountain chain. 一条山链。
a jointed measuring line consisting of linked metal rods
（由相连的金属棒组成的）测链。
the length of such a measuring line (66 ft)
测链的长度（６６英尺）。
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舷侧支索扣板（向帆船两舷水平方向突出，与桅杆并列的木板支承结构，用于加宽桅杆支索的基底）。［ORIGIN: formed earlier of iron plates］ .
fasten or secure with a chain
用链条拴住
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she chained her bicycle to the railings .她用链条把自行车拴在栏杆上。
confine with a chain
用链条禁锢，拘禁，锁住
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he had been chained up 他已上了枷锁
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figurative 〈喻〉as an actuary you will not be chained to a desk .作为保险业务精算师，你不会被拴在办公桌边的。
Sir Ernst Boris (1906—79), German-born British biochemist. With Howard Florey he isolated and purified penicillin and in 1945 they shared a Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming.
钱恩，厄恩斯特·鲍里斯爵士（１９０６—１９７９，生于德国的英国生物化学家，与霍华德·弗洛里一起将青霉素进行分离和提纯，１９４５年两人与亚历山大·弗莱明共获诺贝尔奖）。
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pull （或yank ）someone's chain US informal tease someone, typically by leading them to believe something untrue 〈美，非正式〉 戏弄（或揶揄）某人（尤指使其相信不实之事）
"Middle English： from Old French
