tether

🇬🇧/ˈteðə(r)/ 🇺🇸/ˈteðər/📚 12161 1GRE
If you say that you are at the end of your tether, you mean that you are so worried, tired, and unhappy because of your problems that you feel you cannot cope. 束手无策; 山穷水尽

noun [具体名词]系链;拴绳

She was jealous, humiliated, and emotionally at the end of her tether.
她觉得又嫉妒又屈辱,情绪低落至极。

verb [vt. 及物动词](用绳或链)拴住

The officer dismounted, tethering his horse to a tree.
这位军官下了马,把马拴在一棵树上。

noun [专属名词](Tether)(美、英、加、新、澳、法)特瑟(人名)

I knew what it meant: The handrail could be completely pulled off and the safety tether might break, and I might therefore be pushed into space.
我知道这意味着什么:扶手可能会被完全扯下来,安全绳可能会断裂,我可能因此被推到太空中去。

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Lesson 41 Training elephants tether 动词: (用绳)拴
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...a dog that choked to death on its tether. …一条被拴绳勒死的狗。
Once you are in this geostationary orbit right over the tower, just lower your carbon nanotube cable down from the satellite, tether it to the tower here on Earth. 一旦你来到这个塔旁的地球静止轨道,只需把碳纳米管电缆从卫星上放低然后将其系在位于地球的塔端。