confines
框框,边界,框内,狭窄的空间
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Definitions
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con·fined, con·fin·ing.
- : to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
- : to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days.
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- : Usually confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
- : Often confines. region; territory.
- : Archaic. confinement.
- : Obsolete. a place of confinement; prison.
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Examples
By that time, SantaCon had already spread beyond the narrow confines of a few prankster-explorers.
But the Sketchbook Project confines itself to restricting only submissions that might endanger the staff.
It exists only in his memory, so he retreats into the confines of his mind.
Within the confines of the Internet, this little girl exists only to make us feel better about ourselves.
It takes an effort to think beyond the clear culture-war confines of the case.
As long as he is moderately peaceful and confines his wandering brain to gesticulations and speech, he is let alone by the police.
For no caution is more truly kind than which confines servants strictly to their own sphere.
And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.
And he made his brother, Simon, governor, from the borders of Tyre even to the confines of Egypt.
This section is not expressly confined to wandering persons, but the marginal note confines it to the "occasional poor."