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

• It is impossible to specify a clearly circumscribed ( or delimited) area for any particular science.
  为任何独特的科学指定明确限定的领域都是不可能的。
• However, it is still well-differentiated and circumscribed, without invasion of the stalk, and is benign.
  然而，它仍然是分化良好的和较局限的，蒂没有被破坏，是良性的。
• 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 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。
• A peritonsillar abscess or quinsy may follow an acute tonsillitis and it is usually confined to one side. The circumscribed mass lesion present here in the sella turcica is a pituitary adenoma.
  扁桃体周围脓肿，即脓性扁桃体炎，可接着急性扁桃体炎而发生，它常限于一侧。蝶鞍内的边界清楚的肿块为垂体腺瘤。
• 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。
• Yet the co-operation has been tightly circumscribed from the start.
  然而合作自从开始就被牢牢划定了范围。
• Growth of the diffuse swelling in the neck is painless, not circumscribed, and no skin discoloration.
  颈部呈弥漫性肿大，肿势逐渐增加，边缘不清，皮色如常，不痛。
• 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 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。