tie up

基本解釋

You need the loan for years, but investors don't want to tie up their money for years.
這筆款你需要貸若干年,可是投資者不希望他們的錢(qián)被占用好幾年
If you can do this, your threaded code will be really efficient and it won't tie up valuable mutex locks.
如果能夠做到這一點(diǎn)，線程代碼將是非常高效的，并且不會(huì)占用寶貴的互斥對(duì)象鎖。
The consequence, however, was to tie up trillions of dollars that could be spent on helping them combat the worst effects of the financial crisis.
然而，其后果是占用了本可以用來(lái)幫助它們應(yīng)對(duì)此次金融危機(jī)最嚴(yán)重影響的數(shù)萬(wàn)億美元資金。
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To ease traffic congestion,Clark says, Houston transportation officials created special safety programs to reduce the number of accidents, which tie up traffic.
You need the loan for years, but investors don't want to tie up their money for years.
這筆款你需要貸若干年,可是投資者不希望他們的錢(qián)被占用好幾年
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Had to wake up really early, had to wear suit and tie every day.
在那里必須很早起床，并且每天都要穿西裝打領(lǐng)帶。
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So why would anyone tie up his net worth in a creaky 80-year-old mill?
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When you tie something up, you fasten string or rope around it so that it is firm or secure.
If someone ties another person up, they fasten ropes around them so that they cannot move or escape.
If you tie an animal up, you fasten it to a fixed object with a piece of rope so that it cannot run away.