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Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind .
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PHR-MODAL
一定會；必然會；注定會
If you say that something is bound to happen, you mean that you are sure it will happen, because it is a natural consequence of something that is already known or exists.
例句
There are bound to be price increases next year...
明年物價一定會上漲。
If you are topless in a public place, this sort of thing is bound to happen.
如果你在公共場所裸露上身，這種事情一定會發生。
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PHR-MODAL
（對某事并不確定或無確鑿證據時，認為其）肯定會，確定是
If you say that something is bound to happen or be true, you feel confident and certain of it, although you have no definite knowledge or evidence.
例句
I'll show it to Benjamin. He's bound to know...
我會把它給本杰明看，他肯定會知道。
We'll have more than one child, and one of them's bound to be a boy.
我們會有不止一個孩子，而且其中一定有個男孩。
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ADJ-GRADED
（與…）緊密相連的；（與…）密切相關的；（同…）難以分開的
If one person, thing, or situation is bound to another, they are closely associated with each other, and it is difficult for them to be separated or to escape from each other.
例句
We are as tightly bound to the people we dislike as to the people we love...
不管是我們討厭的人還是喜愛的人都一樣和我們密切相關。
Economic growth is still bound to the issues of poverty, social justice and conservation.
經濟增長仍然與貧困、社會公正和資源保護等問題緊密相連。
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ADJ
要到…去的；駛往…的
If a vehicle or person is bound for a particular place, they are travelling towards it.
例句
The ship was bound for Italy.
這艘船駛向意大利。
...a Russian plane bound for Berlin.
飛往柏林的俄羅斯飛機
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PHRASE
我不得不說（令人不快或出乎意料的事）
You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
例句
I'm bound to say that it seems to me this is certain to lead to violence.
我不得不說，在我看來這肯定會引發暴力事件。
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PHRASE
以…的形式；被容納在…里
If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
例句
The manager of a company does not like having a large chunk of his wealth bound up in its shares...
一家公司經理不愿意讓大筆財富套在股票里。
They'd have a lot of hydrogen sulfide gas bound up in their cells.
他們的牢房里有大量的硫化氫氣體。
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PHRASE
與…密切相關的；同…難以分開的
If one thing is bound up with or in another, they are closely connected with each other, and it is difficult to consider the two things separately.
例句
My fate was bound up with hers...
我和她的命運緊密相連。
The story of their exploration is inextricably bound up with the character of the caves themselves...
他們的勘探經歷與這些洞穴本身的特征有著不可分割的緊密聯系。