中文词源
confine 限制
con-, 强调。-fin, 界限，限制，词源同finish, finite.
英语词源
- confine
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confine: see fine
- confine (n.)
- c. 1400, "boundary, limit" (usually as confines), from Old French confins "boundaries," from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium (plural confinia) "boundary, limit," from confine, neuter of confinis "bordering on, having the same boundaries," from com- "with" (see com-) + finis "an end" (see finish (v.)).
- confine (v.)
- 1520s, "to border on," from Middle French confiner, from confins (n.); see confine (n.). Sense of "keeping within limits" is from 1590s. Related: Confined; confining.
权威例句
- 1. Doctors confine themselves to prescribing rather than dispensing.
- 医生仅仅是开药而不配药。
- 2. Doctors are trying to confine the disease within the city.
- 医生正试图将此病控制在城内.
- 3. He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.
- 他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了.
- 4. I shall confine myself to the subject of geography.
- 我将专攻地理学.
- 5. Confine yourself to the facts.
- 你只说事实吧.
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