limit
英 ['l?m?t]
美['l?m?t]
- n. 限制；限度；界线
- vt. 限制；限定
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词态变化
复数:?limits;第三人称单数:?limits;过去式:?limited;现在分词:?limiting;
中文词源
limit 限度，限制
来自拉丁语limitem,边界，界限。引申词义界限，限制。
英文词源
- limit
- limit: [14] Latin līmes originally denoted a ‘path between fields’, but it became extended metaphorically to any ‘boundary’ or ‘limit’, and that was the sense in which English acquired it (in its stem form līmit-).
=> lintel - limit (n.)
- c. 1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.
- limit (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French limiter "mark (a boundary), restrict; specify," from Latin limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: limited; limiting.
双语例句
- 1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.
- 有些情况下有最低年龄限制。
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- 2. They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
- 他们通过实施低技术规格拼命限制成本。
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- 3. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.
- 3个月的限期截至6月中旬。
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- 4. He was nearly three times over the drink drive limit.
- 他超过醉酒驾驶规定标准快三倍了。
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- 5. A speed limit of 30 mph was introduced in built-up areas.
- 在建筑密集区域，车速限制为每小时30英里。
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