tether

n.

（拴牲畜用的）系绳；限度，极限；

vt.

用绳拴住；拘束，束缚；

复数：tethers过去式：tethered过去分词：tethered现在分词：tethering第三人称单数：tethers

1. The astronauts walked in outer space without a tether.
   宇航员在没有系绳的情况下进行太空行走。
2. This group is composed of men who had never associated themselves with rickshaws but were forced to take up the trade, because they have reached the end of their tether.
   这一些是以前决没想到自己能与洋车发生关系，而到了生和死的界限已经不甚分明，才抄起车把来的。

Membrane Tether Formation from Blebbing Cells
Sex and the psychological tether.
RIM proteins tether Ca2+ channels to presynaptic active zones via a direct PDZ-domain interaction.
Human Rad50/Mre11 is a flexible complex that can tether DNA ends
Dynein binds to beta-catenin and may tether microtubules at adherens junctions
Meiotic proteins bqt1 and bqt2 tether telomeres to form the bouquet arrangement of chromosomes.
LBR and Lamin A/C Sequentially Tether Peripheral Heterochromatin and Inversely Regulate Differentiation
Structure of the extracellular region of HER3 reveals an interdomain tether.
Mechanical properties of neuronal growth cone membranes studied by tether formation with laser optical tweezers.
Tandem Inter [4 + 2]/Intra [3 + 2] Cycloadditions of Nitroalkenes. 15. The Bridged Mode (α-Tether)