limit是什么意思_limit怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed;"there are limits on the amount you can bet"
"it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight"

Verb:

place limits on (extent or access);"restrict the use of this parking lot"
"limit the time you can spend with your friends"

restrict or confine,"I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

decide upon or fix definitely;"fix the variables"
"specify the parameters"

中英词源

limit 限度，限制

来自拉丁语limitem,边界，界限。引申词义界限，限制。

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.

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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;

权威造句

1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.: 有些情况下有最低年龄限制。

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。

3. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.: 3个月的限期截至6月中旬。

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。

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。

近反义词

check

confine

hinder

restrain

restrict

相似短语

the limit 无法再忍耐的事

to the limit adv.到顶点

be the limit 太过分了

limit ... to ... 把…局限于…,使…限制在…

limit to 限于

beyond the limit 超出限度,过分

altitude limit 高程界限

amplitude limit 波幅限制

borrowing limit 借款限额

cash limit 现金限制

单词分析

这些名词均含有“边界，边境”之意。
border多指国与国之间或两地区的分界处，即分界线附近的边缘部分。
bounds常与boundary换用，指土地边界，但意思不如boundary明确，主要用于抽象事物和文学作品中。
boundary侧重地图上正式标定的、双方遵守的边界，也可指较小行政单位间的界线。
frontier指两国接壤的前沿地区，属于各国的国境和边疆，多指设防的边界。
limit含义广泛，常用作复数。指任何界限、范围、分界线外面的部分，可指有形或无形的东西。这些动词均有“限制，限定”之意。
limit一般指事先确定空间、时间或数量的极限，一旦超越限度，就会造成不良结果。当然也可指不事先规定，而且自然的或固有的界限。
confine侧重施加不可逾越的限制，有时暗示束缚、囚禁。
restrict指把某人或物限制在一定范围之内。

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