limit /ˈlɪmɪt/ CET4 TEM4 ( limiting, limited, limits )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A limit is the greatest amount, extent, or degree of something that is possible. 极限

  例：

  Her love for him was being tested to its limits.

  她对他的爱正在考验着极限。

  例：

  There is no limit to how much fresh fruit you can eat in a day.

  你一天内能吃多少新鲜水果并无上限。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A limit of a particular kind is the largest or smallest amount of something such as time or money that is allowed because of a rule, law, or decision. 限制

  例：

  The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.

  3个月的时间限制将于6月中旬到期。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT The limit of an area is its boundary or edge. 界限

  例：

  ...the city limits of Baghdad.

  …巴格达的城市边界。

• 4. 

  N-PLURAL The limits of a situation are the facts involved in it which make only some actions or results possible. 范围

  例：

  She has to work within the limits of a fairly tight budget.

  她不得不在一个相当紧张的预算范围内工作。

• 5. 

  V-T If you limit something, you prevent it from becoming greater than a particular amount or degree. 限制

  例：

  He limited payments on the country's foreign debt.

  他限制了国家外债的支付。

• 6. 

  V-T If you limit yourself to something, or if someone or something limits you, the number of things that you have or do is reduced. 对…作出限制

  例：

  Please limit letters to 125 words or less.

  请把信函限制到125字或更少的字数内。

• 7. 

  limiting ADJ 限制的

  例：

  The conditions laid down to me were not too limiting.

  给我定下的条件没有太大的限制性。

• 8. 

  V-T If something is limited to a particular place or group of people, it exists only in that place, or is had or done only by that group. 仅限于 (某地、某团体) [usu passive]

  例：

  The protests were not limited to New York.

  抗议活动并不仅限于纽约。

• 9. 

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• 10. 

  PHRASE If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there. 禁止入内

  例：

  A one-mile area around the wreck is still off limits.

  沉船周围一英里的地区仍然禁止入内。