单词

confine

读音

kənˈfaɪn

美式

英式

词根

"Confine"的词根是“fin”，源自拉丁语，意思是“终点”或“界限”，表示某事的“结束”或“限制”。与其相关的单词有：“fine”, "final", "definite"等。

释义

n. （尤指某个地方限制行动自由的）边界；（尤指学科或活动领域的）范围；限制 vt. 限制；禁闭；（因疾病、残疾）无法离开（床、家、轮椅）；将（自己或自己的活动）局限于；（妇女）卧床分娩 [ 复数 confines 第三人称单数 confines 现在分词 confining 过去式 confined 过去分词 confined ]

例句

He did not confine himself to the one language.

他没把自己局限于这一门语言。

I will confine myself to looking at the period from 1900 to 1916.

我将把自己考察的范围限定在1900年至1916年这段时间以内。

It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.

看到一个国家的活动离不开豪无尊严的公开争吵是令人痛心的。

强化记忆

你可以通过把"confine"联想成"在限制内"来记住这个词，就像是某件事情被"限制在围栏内"一样。"Confine"这个词源自法国，原意是"界限"，“边界”，最早被用于描述一种在限制中的状态。在中世纪英语中，意为"限制"的用法开始流行，在这之后，“限制”，“禁锢”等含义变成这个词的主要用途。

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but what parents actually dois to constrain, confine and crush their girls.So as they crush their girls,

You had to, you know,confine your phone calls to the absolute essentials.And now, here I am, sitting in my own home in my dressing gown still,

or the liver tumor and the liver you want to leave behind.And we don't even need to confine ourselvesto this macro vision.

So the traditions also insisted -- and this is an important point, I think --that you could not and must not confine your compassionto your own group: your own nation, your own co-religionists,

Because institutions at the momentconfine their data with copyright restrictions and that sort of thing.And if you want to look at medieval manuscripts on the Web,

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