limit

英 ['l?m?t] 美['l?m?t]
  • n. 限制;限度;界線
  • vt. 限制;限定

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詞態(tài)變化


復(fù)數(shù):?limits;第三人稱單數(shù):?limits;過(guò)去式:?limited;現(xiàn)在分詞:?limiting;

中文詞源


limit 限度,限制

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)limitem,邊界,界限。引申詞義界限,限制。

英文詞源


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.

雙語(yǔ)例句


1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.
有些情況下有最低年齡限制。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
他們通過(guò)實(shí)施低技術(shù)規(guī)格拼命限制成本。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.
3個(gè)月的限期截至6月中旬。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. He was nearly three times over the drink drive limit.
他超過(guò)醉酒駕駛規(guī)定標(biāo)準(zhǔn)快三倍了。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. A speed limit of 30 mph was introduced in built-up areas.
在建筑密集區(qū)域,車速限制為每小時(shí)30英里。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句