| 词汇 | confine |
| 释义 | confine verb uk /kənˈfaɪn/ us /kənˈfaɪn/ C2[ T ] to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way: 把…局限在，限制 Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please!请把讨论集中在正题上！ Please confine your use of the phone to business calls.请注意电话仅限于办公用途。 By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas).通过关闭受感染的农场，我们希望把疾病限制在该地区的北部。 C2[ Tusually passive ] to keep someone closed in a place, often by force: （常指强制）关押，监禁，禁闭 The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.人质被关押了那么久，以致于他们对外面的世界一时适应不了。 be confined to somewhere/something to exist only in a particular area or group of people: 仅存在于…；仅限于… We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.我们知道这种疾病不只局限于社会的某一个群体中。 Men have always played an active part in leading worship while women have been confined to more passive roles. The campaign aims to dispel the prejudice that AIDS is confined to the homosexual community.这项运动旨在消除艾滋病仅限于同性恋群体的偏见。 Let's confine our remarks to the facts, shall we? We confined our research to families with only one autistic child. It was terrible for our research to be confined by lack of money. Limiting and restricting anti-libertarian armlock boundary box someone out box someone/something in cripplingly crowd curb curtail curtailment keep (herself) to herselfidiom limit limitation limitative limiting suffocatingly tempered tie someone down tie someone up uncrippled You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Putting people in prison Enclosing, surrounding and immersing confine | American Dictionaryconfine verb[ T ] us/kənˈfɑɪn/ to keep someone or something within limits: The animals were confined in a large pen. Harris does not confine her stage work to Broadway. If something is confined to a particular group of people, it exists only among them: Cancer is not confined to old people. confinedadjectiveus/kənˈfɑɪnd/ You can’t keep kids in a confined space for long. confinementnoun[ U ]us/kənˈfɑɪn·mənt/ He was tired of the constant confinement of his office. Examples of confineconfine The problem is not confined to secondary schools. Theory is not confined to any particular domain - there is as much ecological theory as there is cultural and social theory. As settlement business cost parishes a considerable amount, he added, parishes may well have confined the examination to the time of actual chargeability. The robberies reported in our sample week were, moreover, not confined to the roads alone. However, in contrast to other accounts assuming processing capacity limitations, the processing limitation assumed in this account is confined to movement and checking operations. In their case, the effect was confined to the filler noun (meal). Another characterization confines possible solutions to predefined conceptual frameworks which impose limits on potential design propositions. Such iconography, however, was not just confined to two-dimensional representations. Funerals are public events but both the sickbed and death are confined to the seclusion of the house. The role of the public sector is confined to assessment and the contracting out of service provision to competing non-profit and for-profit home care providers. First, it is assumed that the mortality effects of suspended particulates are confined to the municipality in which they are emitted. Most importantly, it is confined to examining deforestation. The large numbers of small-scale fishers are generally confined to inshore operations by their small vessels, low engine power, and traditional fishing gear. Comparisons of different frames for apologies show that excuse me only occurs in face-to-face conversation and / beg your pardon is confined to talk offences. Their love, in fact, is still unrequited, suspended between death and life, confined in such a voluptuous and yet unresolved oxymoron. See all examples of confine 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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