circumscribe
英 ['sɜːkəmskraɪb]
美[,sɝkəm'sraɪb]
- vt. 限制；在…周围画线
词态变化
第三人称单数: circumscribes;过去式: circumscribed;过去分词: circumscribed;现在分词: circumscribing;名词: circumscription;
中文词源
circumscribe 限制
circum-,圈，周围，-scribe,写，划，见describe,script.
英英释意
- 1. draw a line around;
- "He drew a circle around the points"
- 2. restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- 3. to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
英文词源
- circumscribe (v.)
- late 14c., from Latin circumscribere "to make a circle around, encircle, draw a line around; limit, restrain, confine, set the boundaries of," from circum- "around" (see circum-) + scribere "write" (see script (n.)). Related: Circumscribed; circumscribing.
实用场景例句
- The power of the monarchy was circumscribed by the new law.
- 君主统治的权力受到了新法律的制约。
牛津词典
- The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed...
- 军方显然担心在他的领导下，其活动将受到严重制约。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
- 有多项法律限制公民的权利，使其不得对他人进行人身伤害。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The principal has requested all teachers to circumscribe failures in red on the report cards.
- 这项规定要求,所有老师均要在报告卡用红笔上标出错误所在.
期刊摘选
- The daughter under such restrictions chafes at them circumscribe her whole world.
- 他们的女儿是在如此严厉的约束下,她的整个世界都是受的限制的.
期刊摘选
- Here the basic method to circumscribe contradiction is paraconsistent logic.
- 这里,限制矛盾的基本手法是次协调逻辑.
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- Please circumscribe the words which are wrongly spelled.
- 请将拼错的词圈出来.
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