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limit

高中CET4CET6

英[ˈlɪmɪt]
美[ˈlɪmɪt]

基本释义

n.
极限; 限制; 界限; 范围
v.
限制; 限量; 使限于

词性变化

实用例句

There is a limit to the amount of pain we can bear.

我们能忍受的疼痛是有限度的。

牛津词典

The team performed to the limit of its capabilities.

这个队已竭尽全力。

牛津词典

She knew the limits of her power.

她知道自己的权限。

牛津词典

to push/stretch/test sb/sth to the limit

推 / 拉 / 考查某人(或某物)达到限度

牛津词典

His arrogance knew (= had) no limits .

他极其傲慢。

牛津词典

a time/speed/age limit

时间 / 速度 / 年龄限制

牛津词典

The EU has set strict limits on levels of pollution.

欧盟对污染程度作了严格的限制。

牛津词典

They were travelling at a speed that was double the legal limit .

他们正以两倍于法定限速的速度行驶。

牛津词典

You can't drive─you're over the limit (= you have drunk more alcohol than is legal when driving) .

你饮酒过量,不能驾车。

牛津词典

We were reaching the limits of civilization.

我们快到蛮荒地界了。

牛津词典

Her love for him was being tested to its limits...

她对他的爱经受着极其严峻的考验。

There is no limit to how much fresh fruit you can eat in a day...

每天食用多少新鲜水果都可以。

The three month time limit will be up in mid-June...

3个月的限期截至6月中旬。

The economic affairs minister announced limits on petrol sales.

经济部长宣布了对石油销售的限制。

...the city limits of Baghdad.

巴格达市区

She has to work within the limits of a fairly tight budget...

她不得不在相当紧张的预算范围内精打细算。

He outlined the limits of British power.

他勾画了英国的势力范围。

He limited payments on the country's foreign debt...

他对该国外债的偿还作出了限制。

The view was that the economy would grow by 2.25 per cent. This would limit unemployment to around 2.5 million.

这一观点认为经济将会增长2.25%,这将把失业人数限定在250万左右。

It is now accepted that men should limit themselves to 20 units of alcohol a week...

现在人们已经接受,男性一周饮酒量不应超过20个单位。

Voters cut councillors' pay and limited them to one staff member each.

选民削减了市政会委员的薪酬,并且限定他们每人只配一个工作人员。

The protests were not limited to New York...

抗议活动不只限于纽约。

Entry to this prize draw is limited to UK residents.

这次抽奖只限英国公民参加。

A one-mile area around the wreck is still off limits...

沉船方圆一英里内仍然禁止进入。

These establishments are off limits to ordinary citizens.

这些建筑禁止普通公民入内。

Smoking was off limits everywhere.

到处都禁止吸烟。

If police breathalyse me and find I am over the limit I face a long ban...

如果警察对我作呼气测醉试验,发现我饮酒过量,我将会被禁驾很长时间。

He was found to be three times over the limit.

他血液中的酒精浓度是允许极限的3倍。

They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit.

他们发现,就收入和事业成功来讲,多高都有可能的。

In the circumstances we'll tell you what we can, within limits, of course, and in confidence.

在这种情况下,我们会把能告诉你的都告诉你,当然这是有限度的,而且需要保密。

真题例句

Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Its capacity actually knows no limits.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

New research shows that dogs limit their eye contact with angry humans.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Setting a limit on the amount of sugar or salt in their products.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

In April, France passed a law setting lower limits for a model's weight.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

They set a time limit for each specific task.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

So why not limit the density of food outlets, particularly ones that sell food rich in empty calories?

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

And why not limit sale of food in places that aren't primarily food stores

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

To effectively limit the density of alcohol outlets.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

According to the author, Obama's plan to limit carbon dioxide emissions will by no means be inexpensive

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

They're also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student's limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The power of positive thinking is limited.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

The problem is] not limited to porn (色情) or gambling" websites

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Sure, in the past electric vehicles have their problems, namely, a limited driving range, and very few recharging points, which limited their use.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Partly as a consequence of this limited time, over half of all American homes now have microwave ovens

出自-2012年12月听力原文

And despite what you may believe about the limits of your own creative imaginations, we all have the potential to imagine the world in an absolutely new way.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Japanese laws limit the amount of imported potatoes that can be used in Japanese-made products.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Marketers must qualify their claims on the product packaging and limit them to a specific benefit, such as how much of the product is recycled.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

To limit the FAA's functions.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Yet improvement won’t come easily, it won’t come overnight and there are limits beyond which not even science can take us.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

One free social networking website turned out to successful because it limited each posting to one hundred and forty characters.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In the meantime, the amount of CO2 in the air is rapidly approaching the limits proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

refers to concentration of resources in a limited number of universities.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

concentration of resources in a limited number of universities

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

That's because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Einstein pushed mathematics almost to its limits

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

People nowadays seem to have the sense that their time has become more limited.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

We will have to limit the registration.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Limit the number of participants in the conference

出自-2012年6月听力原文

They hope to do miracles with limited resources.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption to limit access to people's data.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Experts said that whether or not Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost certainly be able to further limit the government's reach.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

But no one does enough to limit exemptions.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But our funds were limited, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.

2015年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Corporate and institutional office designers often struggle to resolve a number of competing and often conflicting demands, including budgetary limits, employee hierarchies, and technological innovationespecially in relation to computerization.

2015年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol explained our role in the earth's changing atmosphere and set international limits for gas emissions from 2008 to 2012.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

In addition, the information about each word in a pocket dictionary is generally limited.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 任务型读写 原文

It does point out that many parents still limit electronic reading, mainly due to concerns about increased screen time.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It limits the spread of new growing techniques.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

Misjudgments on the influences of new technology can lead to a waste of limited resources.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

More recently, the Paris Agreement, stuck by nearly 200 countries, also aims to limit global warming.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Nearly 40 percent of Jazz lovers live outside of the Dallas city limits and drive or fly in to enjoy an evening in the Bishop Arts district.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

Parents ought to be able to opt out only for limited medical or religious reasons.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Some of them are also later sold, in order to limit the number of ponies according to the rules set by natural england.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

This is the most ambitious goal for temperature rise set by the Paris agreement, after a push by low-lying island nations like Kiribati, which say limiting temperature rise to ?

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

To people who are used to the limited choice of apples such as golden delicious and royal gala in supermarkets, it can be quite an eye opener to see the range of classical apples still in existence, such as decio which was grown by the romans.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

With her talent and determination, it appears that the sky could be the limit for Alice moore.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

But senior medical figures want to stop fast-food outlets opening near schools, restrict advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar, and limit sponsorship of sports events by fast-food producers such as McDonald's.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But the Nobel Foundation's limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to ack

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the greatest possible degree of something;

    "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"

    "to the limit of his ability"

  • 2. final or latest limiting point

  • 3. the boundary of a specific area

  • 4. as far as something can go

  • 5. the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity

  • 6. the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed;

    "there are limits on the amount you can bet"

    "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight"

Verb
  • 1. place limits on (extent or access);

    "restrict the use of this parking lot"

    "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

  • 2. restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

  • 3. decide upon or fix definitely;

    "fix the variables"

    "specify the parameters"

同义词辨析

border, bounds, boundary, frontier, limit

这些名词均含有"边界,边境"之意。

  • border: 多指国与国之间或两地区的分界处,即分界线附近的边缘部分。
  • bounds: 常与boundary换用,指土地边界,但意思不如boundary明确,主要用于抽象事物和文学作品中。
  • boundary: 侧重地图上正式标定的、双方遵守的边界,也可指较小行政单位间的界线。
  • frontier: 指两国接壤的前沿地区,属于各国的国境和边疆,多指设防的边界。
  • limit: 含义广泛,常用作复数。指任何界限、范围、分界线外面的部分,可指有形或无形的东西。

limit, confine, restrict

这些动词均有"限制,限定"之意。

  • limit: 一般指事先确定空间、时间或数量的极限,一旦超越限度,就会造成不良结果。当然也可指不事先规定,而且自然的或固有的界限。
  • confine: 侧重施加不可逾越的限制,有时暗示束缚、囚禁。
  • restrict: 指把某人或物限制在一定范围之内。

同义词

n.局限;限制

restrictfenceconfine

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