vt.限制；禁閉

n.范圍；界限；約束；限制

I wish the speaker would confine himself to the subject. 我希望演說(shuō)者不要離題。

I am sick, I have to confine to bed. 我病了，我得臥床休息。

The thief was confined in a prison. 竊賊被關(guān)押在監(jiān)獄里。

Is it cruel to confine a bird in a cage? 把鳥(niǎo)關(guān)在籠子里殘忍不殘忍?

This is outside the confines of human knowledge. 這超出了人類(lèi)知識(shí)范疇。

The refiner defined a definite confine with her fine finger. 提煉者用她精細(xì)的手指定義了一個(gè)明確的界限。

Our first example of confining waves will be to confine a wave at one boundary. 約束波的第一例子是使波動(dòng)在一個(gè)界面上受到限制。

The murderer was placed in the confine. 殺人犯被監(jiān)禁了。

confine的基本意思是“限制”“約束”“劃界”,用作及物動(dòng)詞時(shí)指“把…限制在…范圍內(nèi),限制的范圍多是狹窄的空間,即“絕對(duì)不許越過(guò)或不能超出一定的范圍或限度”,引申可表示嚴(yán)格管束或監(jiān)禁,即“把…關(guān)在…里”“禁閉”等。

confine的主語(yǔ)可以是人,也可以是物,可接名詞或代詞作賓語(yǔ),賓語(yǔ)后面也常可接介詞,接to時(shí)多表示“限制在…范圍內(nèi)”; 接within時(shí)多表示“把…關(guān)在…里面”。

confine是及物動(dòng)詞,表示“使…局限于”,因此在使用時(shí)要注意主動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)和被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)的差別。例如: 他的談話只講到兩個(gè)題目。誤:His talk confined to two topics.正:His talk is confined to two topics. 堤防擋住了洪水。誤:Dikes is confined by the flood water.正:Dikes confined the flood water.

adj.被限制的；狹窄的；在分娩中的

動(dòng)詞confine的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞.

n.拘禁；限制；分娩

n.疆界；界線；范圍

動(dòng)詞confine的第三人稱單數(shù)形式.