circumscribed

英 [ˈsɜːkəmskraɪbd]

美 [ˈsɜːrkəmskraɪbd]

v.  限制，约束(自由、权利、权力等); 画…的外接圆
circumscribe的过去分词和过去式

过去式：circumscribed　

BNC.33333 / COCA.27901

柯林斯词典

• VERB 约束;制约;限制
  If someone's power or freedomis circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
  1. The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed...
     军方显然担心在他的领导下，其活动将受到严重制约。
  2. There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
     有多项法律限制公民的权利，使其不得对他人进行人身伤害。

英英释义

adj

• subject to limits or subjected to limits
  Synonym:limited

双语例句

• In contrast, this hepatocellular carcinoma is not as well circumscribed ( note the infiltration of tumor off to the lower right) nor as uniform in consistency.
  相反，图示肝细胞癌既没有明显的界限，（浸润到较远的右下方）也没有一致性。
• The square is circumscribed by the circle.
  那个病人的行动是受限制的。
• Whereas the fungibility of nearly all other economic goods is more or less circumscribed and is often only a fiction based on an artificial commercial terminology, that of money is almost unlimited.
  几乎所有其它经济财的替代性或多或少都要受到条件的限制，常常只是一个拟定，建立在人为的商业术语上，而钱币的替代性却几乎不受限制。
• The Court has adhered to this notion that reputational harm tends to show a deprivation of liberty, but has circumscribed it in a number of ways.
  最高法院一直坚持此见解&声誉损害倾向于表明剥夺自由，但以若干方式约束了这一见解。
• Their life was extremely circumscribed, with long hours of study and few of play.
  由于长时间的学习和很少玩耍，他们的生活范围太局限了。
• The patient was placed on a very circumscribed diet; he was forbidden to have coffee, spices, or raw fruits or vegetables.
  这位病人的饮食做了非常严格的限制，他不能喝咖啡，用香料，吃生水果或蔬菜。
• The new rules do not affect foreign newspapers or broadcasters in China, which are subject to different regulatory regimes but whose activities are also closely circumscribed.
  这一新规则并不影响外国报纸或广播电视公司的在华业务，因为它们隶属于不同的监管机构。但他们的活动同样受到严格限制。
• They are highly educated people and average readers but their access to information is circumscribed.
  他们都是受过高教育的人和普通的读者，但是他们所了解的信息是受限制的。
• Secondly, we studied the market barriers systematically which are now circumscribed to greenfield entry and closedown exit.
  第二，对主要作用于新建进入和关闭退出的市场壁垒进行了系统的分析。
• To reiterate, the meaning of some terms is circumscribed in the given context.
  必须反复强调，一些术语的含义仅限于给定的上下文。