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单词 circumscribe
释义
circumscribe
verb
uk
/ˈsɜː.kəm.skraɪb/us
/ˈsɝː.kəm.skraɪb/
[Toften passive]formal
tolimitsomething:
控制；限制；抑制
Theirmovementshave beenseverelycircumscribed since thelawscame intoeffect.自从这些法律生效以来，他们的活动受到了严格约束。
Therefollowedaseriesoftightlycircumscribedvisitstomilitaryinstallations.随之而来的是对参观军事设施的一系列严格限制。
[T]mathematicsspecialized
If you circumscribe atriangle,square, etc., youdrawacirclethatsurroundsit andtoucheseach ofitscorners.
画（三角形、正方形等）的外接圆
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
  • anti-libertarian
  • boundary
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • chain
  • chainsomeonetosomething
  • cramp
  • curb
  • curtail
  • curtailment
  • damage limitation
  • debilitating
  • hamstring
  • limit
  • limitation
  • limiting
  • localize
  • non-exempt
  • straitjacket
  • tempered
  • tiesomeonedown
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
(Definition ofcircumscribefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcircumscribe

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All we need is a minimally circumscribed concept that will help us explain the law in particular.
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The authors find the use of 'indigenous' not sufficiently circumscribed for legal discussions.
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Additionally, they aren't ready to comprehend being circumscribed or restricted.
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We divided each grid into contiguous 100-m2 areas circumscribed by the four trap stations at the corners.
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Without the rights and liberties associated with democratic governance, the kinds of demands associated with more open forms of government are circumscribed.
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In the centre of the downwind screen was a round hole circumscribed by a mounting ring to hold a releasing cage.
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The concept of heritability is circumscribed in several ways.
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The possibility of on-line bilingualism would then be circumscribed by the notion of what can be instantaneously combined.
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On the cross section, the whitish tumor in the left ventricle is firm, well circumscribed, and trabeculated.
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The design task cannot be circumscribed simply, if at all, with all the relevant inputs and outputs identified.
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In others, her agency was circumscribed and ambiguous at best.
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Two additional changes in the social relations of the workplace in the first decades of the twentieth century further circumscribed the jobber's power.
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Their influence with the workers declined as the patronage they once commanded was circumscribed, while tensions and conflict in the workplace deepened.
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Do we mind that he thus muffles its voice, literally circumscribes it?
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The prevalence and predictive value of mild impairment or circumscribed deficits have been the subject of several enquiries.
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