| 词汇 | off-limits |
| 释义 | off-limits adjective[ after verb ] uk /ˌɒfˈlɪm.ɪts/ us /ˌɑːfˈlɪm.ɪts/ C2 If an area of land is off-limits, you are not allowed to enter it.禁止入内的 Forbidding and banning things abolish abolition abolitionist anti-censorship ban debar someone from something/doing something decertification decertify deny something to someone disallow non-valid out of boundsidiom outlaw prohibit prohibition unauthorized unkosher unsanctioned verboten veto Examples of off-limitsoff-limits Yet, there are not only few referees in this all-important "game," but also the subject itself has been almost entirely off-limits in the academic literature. A private zone, accessible by private gates in the rear palace wall, housed the king and his dependants and was generally off-limits to visitors. There are still some spaces which are off-limits for cellular phones, such as aeroplanes and churches. Details about the physician's private life would remain off-limits in the research and the reporting. They have raised objections to the archeological investigation of capitalism, claiming that it constitutes a metanarrative and thus is off-limits. If first-family sisters are not naturally off-limits, then second-family sisters are not even habitually so. The increasing assertiveness of the press emboldened independent journalists to tackle themes previously off-limits, from official corruption to electoral fraud, further eroding the regime's declining legitimacy. In sheltered housing there is no obvious area for back region behaviour, other than an individual's flat which, as has been discussed, is largely off-limits to other tenants. Despite this program and its popular dissemination in physiognomy and phrenology, in the first third of the nineteenth century, the brains of geniuses were off-limits for moral reasons. Helier hospital are off-limits to patients because of health and safety concerns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So long as the lawyer was there discussing business with a so-called client according to this amendment that place would be off-limits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that it would be reasonable for us to place any further sources of information off-limits to registration officers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have made it clear that certain sensitive information will be placed off-limits to registration officers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of this area is a walking campus that is off-limits to motorized vehicles. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Unlike her father, she's willing to bite men as well as women, but she's accepted that classmates are off-limits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of off-limits These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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