bound up

estrechamente ligado, vinculado

Muy relacionado con algo, de modo que uno influye en el otro o depende de él.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: bound up with something (The town's future is bound up with tourism.)

Sinónimos: connected, linked, intertwined

Antónimos: unrelated

Expresiones frecuentes: closely bound up, bound up with something

absorto, ensimismado

Tan concentrado en algo que se olvidan o se descuidan las demás cosas.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: bound up in something (He was bound up in his research and forgot to eat.)

Sinónimos: absorbed, engrossed, preoccupied

Expresiones frecuentes: bound up in something, completely bound up