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You can drop down a couple of notches on the food chain to be as brutal, unsympathetic, 
selfish and inhuman as you wish in the name of competition because success supposedly 
justifies any actions.
——Howard Mel
你可以將自己在食物鏈上的身份降低幾個(gè)檔次，打著競爭的旗號，隨你所愿地野蠻、無情、自私和不人道；因?yàn)閾?jù)稱，
成功可以使任何行動成為正當(dāng)?shù)摹?/pre>

——梅爾.H.



	一、關(guān)于chain，你應(yīng)該知道的用法有



	n.



	1.鏈條，鏈子



	He detached his watch from the chain.



	他把手表鏈從手表上拆下來。



	2.手銬，鐐銬



	He'd spent four and a half years in windowless cells, much of the time in chains.



	他已經(jīng)在沒有窗戶的牢房里呆了4年半，多數(shù)時(shí)間都戴著鐐銬。



	3.約束，拘束，羈絆，顧慮



	He had to break right now the chains of habit that bound him to the present.



	他必須現(xiàn)在就打破把他束縛在當(dāng)前境況的習(xí)慣。



	4.一連串，一系列，一排



	He pieced out a chain of evidence and pointed out the fact.



	他把一系列的證據(jù)連貫起來，然后指出事實(shí)。



	5.連鎖店，連鎖集團(tuán)



	He run a chain of pasta restaurant.



	他經(jīng)營著一個(gè)面食餐館連鎖店。



	v.



	1.用鐵鏈鎖住，把…拴起來[T]



	I chained my bicycle to the tree.



	我把自行車用鏈條拴在樹上。



	2.束縛[T]



	Her thoughts could not be chained elsewhere.



	她的思想也不能被別的事物束縛。



	3.監(jiān)禁，囚禁[T]



	They kept me chained up every night and released me each day.



	他們每天晚上把我鎖起來，白天放開。



	?



	二、你知道chain的常見短語，你會用嗎？



	ball and chain? n.鎖鏈,拖累,[俚]妻子



	chain armour? n.鐵環(huán)串連做成的盔甲



	chain letter? n.連鎖信(收信人須轉(zhuǎn)交他人者)



	chain mail? n.鎖子甲



	chain reaction? n.連鎖反應(yīng)



	?



	三、學(xué)會chain的用法了嗎？來做個(gè)小測試吧



	I?have?detached the?watch?from?the??????? .?



	我已把表從表鏈上取了下來。



	These?jewels?are?strung?together on?a?silver??????? .?



	這些寶石穿在一根銀鏈上。