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词汇 boundary
释义 boundary
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbaʊn.dər.i/ us /ˈbaʊn.dər.i/

boundarynoun[C] (LIMIT)


C1
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit of something: 分界线;边界
boundary betweenThe Ural mountains mark the boundary between Europe and Asia.乌拉尔山脉是欧洲和亚洲的分界线。
Residents are opposed to the prison being built within the city boundary.居民们反对把监狱建在市区。
C1
the limit of a subject or principle: 界限
Electronic publishing is blurring the boundaries between dictionaries and encyclopedias.电子出版使得词典与百科全书的界限变得模糊。
[ usually plural ]
the limit of what someone considers to be acceptable behaviour:
Try to show love while respecting each other's boundaries.
set a boundaryWe set firm boundaries, and if the children cross them there are consequences.
a line, piece of a rope, etc. that marks the edge of the playing area on a cricket field:
She hit the ball over the boundary.
We watched the match from beyond the boundary.
The boundary of the car park is delineated by a low brick wall.一堵矮墙标出了停车场的边界。
They've been feuding with their neighbours for years over a boundary issue.多年来,他们一直为了地界问题与邻居不和。
A disagreement about boundaries is at the heart of the dispute.争议的焦点就是边界问题。
This film blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy.
The bad language in that play overstepped the boundaries of what ought to be allowed on television.
Growing up in a big family really gave me a sense of boundaries, of what is acceptable for me and what isn't.
He sometimes has trouble maintaining boundaries in relationships.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Territorial boundaries
border
bound
bounded by something
bourne
checkpoint
demarcation
frontier
hard border
line of demarcation
no-man's-land
passport control
state line
the Iron Curtain
the Mason-Dixon Line
transboundary
unhedged

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Range and limits
Limiting and restricting
Self-control and moderation
Cricket

boundarynoun[C] (SCORE)


in cricket, a hit that sends the ball past the line that marks the edge of the playing area, scoring four or six runs(= points):
I hit a boundary from the first ball I faced.
The innings included eight boundaries.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cricket
12th man
all out
all-rounder
arm ball
asking rate
batting
bowl
eleven
hook
jaffa
king pair
late cut
leg break
leg bye
strike rate
sundries
switch-hit
tail
tailender
third man

boundary | American Dictionary


boundary
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbɑʊn·dri, -də·ri/
an edge or limit of something:
You can camp anywhere inside the boundaries of the park.
Your work is limited only by the boundaries of your imagination.

Examples of boundary


boundary
Identifying the exact boundaries of the larger elements is a part, but only one part, of that task.
The boundaries mark off words - usually in groups of two to five - that can be synthesized as a phrase.
All text is in upper case and punctuation, even at sentence boundaries, is rarely used.
Syntactic information is not only relevant for the distribution of pitch accents, but also for the placement of phrase boundaries within an utterance.
In this way, the effect of co-articulation at the word boundaries was minimised.
We can, however, infer four rules (or regular expressions) to identify syllable boundaries.
The challenge then is to infer unknown syllable boundaries in such a way as to profit from this potential.
When boundaries are pushed, new awakenings in the self can be located.
How does the group create and maintain this discontinuity, these boundaries ?
Just as interactions among the people of the basin area have always constituted complex patterns that transcended national boundaries, so has the pattern of conflict.
The point is that social context theory extends the concept of religious contexts beyond the institutional boundaries of churches and other places of worship.
As we have seen above, the temperature u(x, t) is well-defined in the stationary case and depends continuously on the crystal boundaries.
Surely this would not be the case if knowledge creation were a simple matter of pushing back the boundaries of the unknown.
Furthermore, it has a simple syllable structure and clear syllable boundaries.
A related issue concerns where the boundaries for emotional states should be set.
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Collocations withboundary


boundary

These are words often used in combination with boundary.

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administrative boundary
I take an ordinary case where an administrativeboundary between two authorities is a river.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
appropriate boundary
It is set as a coupled system of two elliptic partial differential equations, together with the appropriateboundary conditions.
arbitrary boundary
It is a highly arbitraryboundary across which many pupils commute in both directions.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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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