confine是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way -- 把…局限在，限制

  • Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please! 請把討論集中在正題上！

  • Please confine your use of the phone to business calls. 請注意電話僅限於辦公用途。

  • By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas). 透過關閉受感染的農場，我們希望把疾病限制在該地區的北部。

  • The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world. 人質被關押了那麽久，以致於他們對外面的世界一時適應不了。

  • We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society. 我們知道這種疾病不只局限於社會的某一個群體中。

  • This attitude seems to be confined to the very wealthy. 這種態度似乎只存在於上層階級中。