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1. cắt lông cánh (chim) để không bay được

   To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.

   transitive

   They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.

   The two old ducks…being pinioned, could not fly away.

   They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.

2. trói tay (ai) lại

   To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.

   transitive

   Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.

   Both my arms are pinioned from behind by the Director of Comp., who wrestles me roughly down, on me with all his weight. I taste floor.

3. hạn chế, kiềm chế

   To restrain; to limit.

   figuratively · transitive

   Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.

   I am pinioned by a chain of reasoning! Why else do his four friends conspire to conceal […]

Dạng khác

• pinions present, singular, third-person
• pinioning participle, present
• pinioned participle, past

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