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circumscribe

/sur-kuhm-skrahyb, sur-kuhm-skrahyb/US // ˈsɜr kəmˌskraɪb, ˌsɜr kəmˈskraɪb //UK // (ˌsɜːkəmˈskraɪb, ˈsɜːkəmˌskraɪb) //

绕行,绕开,绕过,围绕着这个问题

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cir·cum·scribed, cir·cum·scrib·ing.

    • : to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
    • : to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly: Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations.
    • : to mark off; define; delimit: to circumscribe the area of a science.
    • : Geometry. to draw around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible. to enclose in this manner.

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Examples

  • So when the pandemic hit, he felt determined to do more than just ensure the survival of his restaurant — he wanted to embed more deeply in the neighborhood, albeit from within the tightly circumscribed framework of fine dining.

  • This kind of effect on memory is likely to be short term and circumscribed to the information the subjects saved onto the device.

  • There is the man, who scared the living hell out of me, but the rage was about growing up in a world circumscribed by the reality of race.

  • For travelers like me circumscribed by the pandemic, aromas offer the chance to revisit cherished journeys.

  • Such is the unbearable situation created in a culture quick to judge, to expel and especially to circumscribe the lives of women.

  • Their opponents accepted the issue, and resolved to circumscribe the duke's inordinate powers.

  • It is my wish to state it with precision and circumscribe its limits here at the very start.

  • A new spirit has now gone abroad which no walls can bound or circumscribe.

  • This finally came to be so urgent that it even involved an effort to circumscribe the futile activities.

  • Of a simple and solid edifice, it is not easy, however, to circumscribe the duration.