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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2898 COCA: 5337
confineverbuk/kənˈfaɪn/ us/kənˈfaɪn/

C2 [ T ] 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!请把讨论集中在正题上！
Please confine your use of the phone to business calls.请注意电话仅限于办公用途。
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).通过关闭受感染的农场，我们希望把疾病限制在该地区的北部。

C2 [ T usually passive ] to keep someone closed in a place, often by force（常指强制）关押，监禁，禁闭

The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.人质被关押了那么久，以致于他们对外面的世界一时适应不了。
be confined to somewhere/sth

to exist only in a particular area or group of people仅存在于…；仅限于…

We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.我们知道这种疾病不只局限于社会的某一个群体中。
This attitude seems to be confined to the verty wealthy.这种态度似乎只存在于上层阶级中。

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Men have always played an active part in leading worship while women have been confined to more passive roles.

The campaign aims to dispel the prejudice that AIDS is confined to the homosexual community.

Let's confine our remarks to the facts, shall we?

We confined our research to families with only one autistic child.

It was terrible for our research to be confined by lack of money.

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2898 COCA: 5337
confine

verb

ADVERB | PREPOSITION ADVERB➤entirely, exclusively, solely, strictly, totally完全限制；僅僅局限於；嚴格限制▸➤increasingly愈加限制▸➤essentially, largely, mainly, mostly, primarily本質上／大體上／主要／大多數／首先局限於◇The discussion will be confined largely to general principles.討論主要局限於整體原則。➤generally, normally, typically一般／通常／典型地局限於◇Condemned prisoners are typically confined to small cells for 23 hours a day.死刑犯通常一天有 23 小時被關押在很小的牢房裏。◇These small mammals are generally confined to the south of the island.這些小型哺乳動物一般只出沒於該島南部。➤by no means, hardly, not just, not necessarily絕不／很少／不僅／不一定限於◇Poverty and deprivation are by no means confined to the north of the country.貧困並不僅僅只存在於這個國家的北部。➤safely (especially NAmE) 安全地局限於◇Not all horror stories are safely confined to the television set or movie screen.並非所有恐怖故事都安全地只出現在電視或電影中。PREPOSITION➤to限制在⋯◇Let's confine our attention to the problem of illegal drugs.讓我們把注意力集中在違禁藥物的問題上。◇She's been confined to a wheelchair since having a bad fall.她自從摔了一大跤後就只能一直坐輪椅了。◇They confined themselves to purely economic matters.他們將自己局限於純粹的經濟問題上。
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2898 COCA: 5337
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2898 COCA: 5337

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