limit
n. 极限; 限制; 界限; 范围
v. 限制; 限量; 使限于
A limit is the greatest amount, extent, or degree of something that is possible.
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。
A limit of a particular kind is the largest or smallest amount of something such as time or money that is allowed because of a rule, law, or decision.
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 limit of an area is its boundary or edge.
...the city limits of Baghdad.
巴格达市区
The limits of a situation are the facts involved in it which make only some actions or results possible.
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。
If you limit something, you prevent it from becoming greater than a particular amount or degree.
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。
If you limit yourself to something, or if someone or something limits you, the number of things that you have or do is reduced.
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。
If something is limited to a particular place or group of people, it exists only in that place, or is had or done only by that group.
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。
If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there.
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。
If you say that something is off limits, you mean that you are not allowed to do it.
Smoking was off limits everywhere.
到处都禁止吸烟。
If someone is over the limit, they have drunk more alcohol than they are legally allowed to when driving a vehicle.
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。
If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.
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。
If you add within limits to a statement, you mean that it is true or applies only when talking about reasonable or normal situations.
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。
1. the greatest possible degree of something;
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;
1. place limits on (extent or access);
2. restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
3. decide upon or fix definitely;
border, bounds, boundary, frontier, limit
这些名词均含有"边界,边境"之意。
limit, confine, restrict
这些动词均有"限制,限定"之意。
be the limit
(非正式)十分讨厌的,令人气恼的
off limits
禁止入内
within limits
适度地,在某范围内
without limit
没有限制
There isn't a limit to everything.
对每件事情没有什么限制.
There is a limit to one's life, but no limit to serving the people.
人的生命是有限的, 但为人民服务是无限的.
The General Assembly may limit the time to be allowed to each speaker.
大会可限制每一发言者的发言时间.
He must limit the number of cigarettes he smokes.
他必须限制他抽烟的数目.
The house prices in the city seemed soaring up without limit.
这个城市的房价好像在无限制地飞涨.