| 词汇 | confining |
| 释义 | confining present participle ofconfine 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 crippling cripplingly crowd curb curtail keep (herself) to herselfidiom keep something down limit limitation limitative stunt suffocatingly tempered tie someone down tie someone up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Putting people in prison Enclosing, surrounding and immersing Examples of confiningconfining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nonlinear confining and deconfining forces associated with interaction of laser radiation with plasma. Nonlinear confining and deconfining forces associated with the interaction of laser radiation with plasma. In the case of methods defined in the confining package, this ensues from the other confinement rules. In addition, the channel-levee system affords potential confining and sorting mechanisms for the different grain-sizes of clastic sediments and organics. Confining electrons in the nodes of standing microwaves. This result is attributed to a selfgenerated low-resistivity channel confining the electron beam. The brevity of his exclamation may be attributed to opera-comique conventions confining elaborate self-expression to arias. The new political landscape has created new confining conditions, which may persuade the opposition to re-engage in the process of democratic consolidation. The story challenges the confining logic that equates women with passivity and therefore places women's pacifism in opposition to men's militarism. The problem with this scheme is that absorption processes overcome the confining forces before fusion can occur. However, their comments are also balanced with a sense of needing to escape a "confining" family environment. Females do not participate in public affairs, confining their activities entirely to the home. We did this by confining the optimal stimulus to a central region the size of the peak summation diameter. To the degree that too much is squeezed into a single and confining mould, the resulting conclusions are weakened. It provides us with an extremely thin notion of legal positivism and then guarantees its truth by confining it to a very narrow question. 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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