limit
英['l?m?t]
美['l?m?t]
- n. 限制；限度；界線
- vt. 限制；限定
詞態變化
復數:?limits;第三人稱單數:?limits;過去式:?limited;現在分詞:?limiting;
中文詞源
limit 限度，限制
來自拉丁語limitem,邊界，界限。引申詞義界限，限制。
英文詞源
- limit
- limit: [14] Latin līmes originally denoted a ‘path between fields’, but it became extended metaphorically to any ‘boundary’ or ‘limit’, and that was the sense in which English acquired it (in its stem form līmit-).
=> lintel - limit (n.)
- c. 1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.
- limit (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French limiter "mark (a boundary), restrict; specify," from Latin limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: limited; limiting.
雙語例句
- 1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.
- 有些情況下有最低年齡限制。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
- 他們通過實施低技術規格拼命限制成本。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.
- 3個月的限期截至6月中旬。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. He was nearly three times over the drink drive limit.
- 他超過醉酒駕駛規定標準快三倍了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. A speed limit of 30 mph was introduced in built-up areas.
- 在建筑密集區域，車速限制為每小時30英里。
來自柯林斯例句