详细释义
- 范围,区域
- 边界,界限,边缘,边境,边疆,边境地区
- 境界
- 国界,疆界
- 限度
- 拘禁,监牢
- 约束,限制
- 限制,限定,保持在…限度内,把...限制在一定范围内,限(于)
- 禁闭,监禁,幽禁,禁锢,关(起来),使闭居,使闭门不出,使离不开
- 【物】约束
- 使局限,局限于
- 吸持
- 使卧床,(因病)卧床
- 分娩,坐月子
- <古>邻接,接界,接壤,毗邻,与...相邻,与...接界
- 蛰居,闭居
- 集中
- 管制
- vt. 限制; 局限于 keep or hold, restrict, within limits
- vt. 禁闭; 管制; 关起来 keep shut up
- [P]界限,范围 limits; borders
英英释义
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place limits on (extent or access);
"restrict the use of this parking lot"
"limit the time you can spend with your friends"
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restrict or confine,
"I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
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prevent from leaving or from being removed
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close in; darkness enclosed him
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deprive of freedom; take into confinement
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to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement;
"This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"
"About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"
"The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"
"The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
双语例句
- I wish the speaker would confine himself to the subject.
我希望演说者不要离题。 - I am sick, I have to confine to bed.
我病了,我得卧床休息。 - The thief was confined in a prison.
窃贼被关押在监狱里。 - Is it cruel to confine a bird in a cage?
把鸟关在笼子里残忍不残忍? - This is outside the confines of human knowledge.
这超出了人类知识范畴。 - The refiner defined a definite confine with her fine finger.
提炼者用她精细的手指定义了一个明确的界限。 - Our first example of confining waves will be to confine a wave at one boundary.
约束波的第一例子是使波动在一个界面上受到限制。 - It will use magnetic fields to confine hydrogen isotopes and heat them to hundreds of millions of degrees Celcius.
它利用磁场约束氢的同位素并将其加热到数亿摄氏度。 - The murderer was placed in the confine.
杀人犯被监禁了。
- He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.
他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了。 - Dikes confined the flood water.
堤防挡住了洪水。 - She confined her activities in educational circles.
她把她的各项活动都限制在教育圈内。
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- The thief is confined in prison.
这贼被关在监狱里。 - Since theft has become his habit, he should be confined.
偷盗既然成了他的习惯,就该把他关起来。 - He was not permitted to pass beyond the confines of his house.
他不得走出房子的范围。 - This is outside the confines of human knowledge.
这是在人类知识的范围之外。
用法讲解
- confine的基本意思是“限制”“约束”“划界”,用作及物动词时指“把…限制在…范围内,限制的范围多是狭窄的空间,即“绝对不许越过或不能超出一定的范围或限度”,引申可表示严格管束或监禁,即“把…关在…里”“禁闭”等。
- confine的主语可以是人,也可以是物,可接名词或代词作宾语,宾语后面也常可接介词,接to时多表示“限制在…范围内”; 接within时多表示“把…关在…里面”。
- confine, limit
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- 这组词都有“使…局限于”的意思。它们之间的区别是:
- 1.confine意味着不能超出一定的范围或限制。
- 2.limit除了具有confine上述的意思之外,还有“预先定下标准、界限,不许越过,不然将受惩罚或遭受不利”的意思。
- 3.confine的过去分词confined表示“受禁闭”; limit的过去分词limited表示“很有限”“贫乏”。
- confine, bound, limit
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- 参见confine条。
- confine,imprison,jail
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- 这些动词均含“监禁”之意。
- confine指监禁或幽禁;也指任何使行动受到限制的行为。
- imprison较正式用词,多指较长时间的监禁。
- jail(英国用gaol)多指审判之间的拘禁或对罪行较轻的罪犯的监禁。
- limit,confine,restrict
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- 这些动词均有“限制,限定”之意。
- limit一般指事先确定空间、时间或数量的极限,一旦超越限度,就会造成不良结果。当然也可指不事先规定,而且自然的或固有的界限。
- confine侧重施加不可逾越的限制,有时暗示束缚、囚禁。
- restrict指把某人或物限制在一定范围之内。
- confine to (v.+prep.)
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限于…之内 limit sb/sth to sth such as a place or subject
confine oneself/sb/sth to sthIllness confined him to his room.
他因病呆在屋里。
He has confined himself to the study of modern languages.
他只学习现代语言。
Please confine your remarks to the subject under discussion.
请把你的话题限于我们所讨论的题目范围之内。
The edition is confined to 5000 copies.
这一版书限出5000册。
Our knowledge about agriculture has so far been exclusively confined to books.
我们对农业的知识至今只限于书本上所说的。
For the time being the call-up will be confined to men under the age of twenty-five.
眼下征召令将限于二十五岁以下的男子。
- confine within (v.+prep.)
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关在…里 limit sb/sth within sth such as an area
confine sth within sthDoctors are trying to confine the disease within the city.
医生正试图将此病控制在城内。
I should hate to be confined within the four walls of an office all day.
我讨厌整天关在办公室里。
- confine one's activities 限制活动
- confine the disease 控制疾病
- confine the fire 控制大火
- confine the flood water 挡住洪水
- confine the prisoner 押禁犯人
- confine the study of modern languages 只学习现代语言
- confine the subject 限制题目
- confine thief 把小偷关起来
- confine chiefly 主要限于
- confine completely 完全限于
- confine exclusively 只限于
- confine strictly 严格地限制
- confine sb at hard labour 服苦役
- confine sth by an enclosure 用篱笆围起来
- confine in a dungeon 被关在地牢里
- confine of a girl 生个女孩
- confine on a country 与一个国家接壤
- confine to (使)限制在…
- confine sb to bed (因病)卧床
- confine to quarters 禁闭
- confine sth to a small area 控制在一个小范围内
- confine to one topic 局限在一个主题内
- confine within doors 不得出家门
- confine within very narrow limits 深受局限
- confine within the problem 以这个问题为限
- beyond the confines of 在…之外
- on the confine of 濒于,差一点儿(就)
- out of the confines of 在…之外
- within the confines of 在…之内
相关词汇
- restrain 抑制
- imprison 监禁
- limit 限度
- keep 保持
- restrict 限制
- detain 扣留
- enclose 圈起
- contain 容纳
- surround 包围
- jail 监牢
- curb 路边
- narrow 有限的
- sequester 使 ... 隔绝
- quarantine 隔离
- lock up 上锁
- impound 扣押
- shut in 监禁
- incarcerate 监禁
- keep in 抑制
- coop up 禁闭
- circumscribe 限制
- in 在 ... 里
- trammel 网
- bound 必定的
- hold in 压住
- hold 拿着
- throttle 节流阀
- free 自由的