bound up

étroitement lié

Très lié à quelque chose, au point que l'un influence l'autre ou en dépend.

En anglais simple : Closely connected with something, so that one affects or depends on the other.

• Our futures are bound up together.
• Her identity is closely bound up with her work.
• Children's health is bound up with their living conditions.

Comment l'utiliser : bound up with something (The town's future is bound up with tourism.)

Synonymes : connected, linked, intertwined

Contraires : unrelated

Expressions courantes : closely bound up, bound up with something

absorbé, accaparé

Tellement concentré sur quelque chose qu'on oublie ou néglige le reste.

En anglais simple : Giving so much attention to something that you forget or ignore other things.

• She is bound up in her work.
• He was so bound up in the book that he missed dinner.
• Don't get too bound up in your own problems.

Comment l'utiliser : bound up in something (He was bound up in his research and forgot to eat.)

Synonymes : absorbed, engrossed, preoccupied

Expressions courantes : bound up in something, completely bound up