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- to constrict
- to draw tight
- to gather (one's thoughts)
- to bring to a close
- to pack (for a journey)
Trad. 束髮
- to tie up one's hair
- (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)
- to restrict
- to restrain
- constrained
- awkward
- ill at ease
- uncomfortable
- reticent
- Chinese name for African kingdom in Somalia, cf Mogadishu 摩加迪沙
- to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
Trad. 行將結束
- approaching the end
- about to conclude
Trad. 束之高閣
- tied up in a bundle on a high shelf
- to put sth on the back burner
- no longer a high priority
- lit. to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom)
- fig. to surrender without a fight
Trad. 束手就斃
- hands tied and expecting the worst
Trad. 束手待斃
- to wait helplessly for death (idiom)
- to resign oneself to extinction
Trad. 束手束腳
- (idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited
Trad. 束手無策
- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
Trad. 束手縛腳
- see 束手束腳|束手束脚[shu4 shou3 shu4 jiao3]
Trad. 無拘無束
- free and unconstrained (idiom); unfettered
- unbuttoned
- without care or worries
Trad. 法律約束力
- legal force (i.e. binding in law)
Trad. 維管束植物
- vascular plants
- tracheophytes (botany)