Chain

(noun.) a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament.

(noun.) a necklace made by a stringing objects together; 'a string of beads'; 'a strand of pearls';.

(noun.) anything that acts as a restraint.

(noun.) a linked or connected series of objects; 'a chain of daisies'.

(noun.) (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership.

(noun.) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; 'the chain of command'; 'a complicated concatenation of circumstances'.

(noun.) (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule).

(noun.) British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979).

(noun.) a unit of length.

(verb.) fasten or secure with chains; 'Chain the chairs together'.

(verb.) connect or arrange into a chain by linking.

吉塞尔编辑

• For what's a door-chain when she's got one always up? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He has a watch and a chain and a ring and a breast-pin and a handsome suit of clothes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• At last, he said, There was an old gentleman, with thick eyebrows, and a broad hat, and large chain and seals. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When he began to undo the chain, the legs desisted, and a voice began. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Another night was coming on, for another night he was to be suspended in chain of physical life, over the bottomless pit of nothingness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She has joined the two chains, and has fastened them to the hasp in the tin case. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Many prisoners die here in their chains. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He proclaimed to the Italians that the French were coming to break their chains--_and they were_! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Arise, ye Greeks, and break your chains! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I know not; I lost sensation, and chains and darkness were the only objects that pressed upon me. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Four brass chains support a slab of wood about 28 inches long by about 8 or ten inches in width. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I fell in behind them and soon we were at the cell in which the great Thark had been chained. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Reliant on Night, confiding in Solitude, I kept my tears sealed, my sobs chained, no longer; they heaved my heart; they tore their way. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Thus vanquished and restricted, she pined, like any other chained denizen of deserts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr Flintwinch shut him out, and chained him out, without a moment's loss of time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She had chained it up again, and however it might tear her within, she subdued it to herself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Chained with them were a number of fierce beasts, such as had been turned upon us, and others equally as ferocious. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• And so I caused Hor Vastus to be harnessed in the metal of a Zodangan soldier and chained in Parthak's cell beside him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I should think you'd be ashamed to spend all your life buying men and women, and chaining them, like cattle! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The chaining of the door behind her, as she went forth, disenchanted Lizzie Hexam of that first relief she had felt. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He sent a damping message to a solitary who had invented a new degree in saintliness by chaining himself to a rock in a narrow cave. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You hear him bolting and chaining the door within. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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