| 释义 |
iron-boundadjective1Bound with iron: an old iron-bound chest...- In one corner was a disarrayed mess of blankets that I guessed served as a bed, an iron-bound chest similar to Mai's tucked into a corner.
- Locked iron-bound chests labelled with Sathe script were everywhere.
- At the foot of the bed a patch of darkness resolved into a heavy, iron-bound chest.
1.1Rigorous or inflexible: iron-bound rules...- Of all rules of public law it is the one which does most to prevent the whole of the civilised world being brought under an iron-bound theory of government.
- Ammons, like Kerouac, seems to have "gotten sick and tired of the conventional English sentence which seemed to me so iron-bound in its rules."
1.2 archaic (Of a coast) faced or enclosed with rocks. |