If you feel bound by something such as a rule, agreement, or restriction, you feel forced or required to act in a certain way.
The world of advertising is obviously less bound by convention than the world of banking.
与银行业相比,广告业显然较少受常规的约束。
If one person, thing, or situation is bound to another, they are closely associated with each other, and it is difficult for them to be separated or to escape from each other.
We are as tightly bound to the people we dislike as to the people we love.
我们与我们所爱的人息息相关,但与我们不喜欢的人也同样关系密切。
If a vehicle or person is bound for a particular place, they are travelling towards it.
The ship was bound for Italy.
这艘船是开往意大利的。
Bound is used in compound adjectives to indicate that a vehicle or person is travelling towards a particular place.
a Texas-bound oil freighter.
一艘开往得克萨斯州的油轮。
Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
bounds
Bounds are limits which normally restrict what can happen or what people can do.
Changes in temperature occur slowly and are constrained within relatively tight bounds.
温度变化得很慢,而且被控制在相对严格的范围内。
a forceful personality willing to go beyond the bounds of convention.
想要打破世俗束缚的强硬个性。
A bound is a long or high jump.
With one bound Jack was free.
纵身一跃,杰克自由了。
be bound to
If you say that something is bound to happen, you mean that you are sure it will happen, because it is a natural consequence of something that is already known or exists.
There are bound to be price increases next year.
明年价格必然会上涨。
If you say that something is bound to happen or be true, you feel confident and certain of it, although you have no definite knowledge or evidence.
I'll show it to Benjamin. He's bound to know.
我要让本杰明瞧瞧,他该知道。
out of bounds
If a place is out of bounds, people are not allowed to go there.
For the last few days the area has been out of bounds to foreign journalists.
过去几天,这个地区禁止外国记者入内。
If something is out of bounds, people are not allowed to do it, use it, see it, or know about it.
American parents may soon be able to rule violent TV programmes out of bounds.
美国父母也许很快就能禁止暴力电视节目的播放。
bounds , bounding , bounded
If an area of land is bounded by something, that thing is situated around its edge.
Kirgizia is bounded by Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
吉尔吉斯与乌兹别克斯坦、哈萨克斯坦和塔吉克斯坦相毗邻。
the trees that bounded the parking lot.
停车场周围的树。
If someone's life or situation is bounded by certain things, those are its most important aspects and it is limited or restricted by them.
Our lives are bounded by work, family and television.
我们的生活受到工作、家庭及电视的约束。
If a person or animal bounds in a particular direction, they move quickly with large steps or jumps.
He bounded up the steps and pushed the bell of the door.
他跳上了台阶,按了门铃。
If the quantity or performance of something bounds ahead, it increases or improves quickly and suddenly.
Shares in the company bounded ahead by almost 3 per cent.
公司的股份几乎骤升了3。