We'd agreed from the beginning not to tie each other down.

我们从一开始就约定不限制对方。

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I don't want to tie myself down to coming back on a particular date.

我不想限定自己在哪一天回来。

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They can help you pull down the basket or tie the balloon to the ground car until you are ready to fly.

他们可以帮你拉下篮子，或者把气球系在地上的汽车上，直到你准备好起飞。

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To dry parsley, tie the plant stems together and hang them upside down in a warm, dark,airy place.

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Some of us are supermen, and it is quite wrong and wicked for us to be treated as though we were ordinary fellows, and therefore do not tie us down with these ridiculous codes of ethics, and morals, and other things which are simply the weapons by which the weak hold down the strong."

有些甚至是超人,把我们都作为普通人,来对待是错的,是不道德的,所以别用荒唐的,道德伦理来束缚我们,或用武器这样粗陋的东西来约束我们,那是弱者用来压制强者的工具"

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The fact that the tie is blue plaid and has some navy to tie it down to the navy suit helps.

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And with Kinnear's contract expiring at the end of the season anyway, Llambias said the club were keen to tie Shearer down to a long-term deal.

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"We were able to tie it down to procedures that either were not in place or had not been fully implemented at BP in their management system, " said Allison Iversen, a coordinator at Alaska's Petroleum Systems Integrity Office.

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