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con·fine AHD[kən-fīnʹ] D.J.[kənˈfaɪn]K.K.[kənˈfaɪn]v.（动词）con.fined, con.fin.ing, con.fines v.tr.（及物动词）- To keep within bounds; restrict:限制：使局限于；限制：Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand.See Synonyms at limit 请你把话题局限在手头的问题上 参见 limit
- To shut or keep in, especially to imprison.禁闭：关闭或禁闭，尤指在监狱里
- To restrict in movement:限制行动：The sick child was confined to bed.这个生病的小孩不能离床
v.intr.Archaic（不及物动词）【古语】- To border.为…的边界
n.（名词）AHD[kŏnʹfīn'] - confines confines
- The limits of a space or an area; the borders:边界：空间或地区的界限；边界：within the confines of one county.在一国的国境内
- Restraining elements:约束：限制的要素：wanted to escape the confines of corporate politics and bureaucracy.想要逃离团体策略与官僚制度的约束
- Purview; scope:范围；区间：children who learned to work within the confines of the curriculum; a theory that has transcended the confines of science.孩子们在课程范围内学习；超越科学范畴的理论
- Archaic A restriction.【古语】 限制
- Obsolete A prison.【废语】 监狱
- French confiner 法语 confiner
- from Old French 源自 古法语
- from confins [boundaries] 源自 confins [边界]
- ultimately from Latin cōnfīne [from neuter of] cōnfīnis [adjoining] 最终源自 拉丁语 cōnfīne 源自cōnfīnis的中性词 [邻近的]
- com- [com-] com- [前缀，表“和”]
- fīnis [border] fīnis [边界]
confinʹable 或 confineʹable adj.（形容词）confinʹer n.（名词） |