circumscribe
vt. 在…周圍劃線; 劃定…範圍; 限制; 限定
If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed...
軍方顯然擔心在他的領導下,其活動將受到嚴重製約。
There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
有多項法律限制公民的權利,使其不得對他人進行人身傷害。
1. draw a line around;
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
The principal has requested all teachers to circumscribe failures in red on the report cards.
這項規定要求,所有老師均要在報告卡用紅筆上標出錯誤所在.
The daughter under such restrictions chafes at them circumscribe her whole world.
他們的女兒是在如此嚴厲的約束下,她的整個世界都是受的限制的.
Here the basic method to circumscribe contradiction is paraconsistent logic.
這裡,限制矛盾的基本手法是次協調邏輯.
Please circumscribe the words which are wrongly spelled.
請將拼錯的詞圈出來.