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constraint

/kuhn-streynt/US // kənˈstreɪnt //UK // (kənˈstreɪnt) //

约束力,拘束力,约束条件,限制条件

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : limitation or restriction.
    • : repression of natural feelings and impulses: to practice constraint.
    • : unnatural restraint in manner, conversation, etc.; embarrassment.
    • : something that constrains.
    • : the act of constraining.
    • : the condition of being constrained.
    • : Linguistics. a restriction on the operation of a linguistic rule or the occurrence of a linguistic construction.

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Examples

  • The resulting annual bill was enormous, though USPS has skipped billions in payments since 2010, according to the USPS Office of Inspector General, citing financial constraints.

  • Some of the strongest constraints you have on those models are within the solar system, because we understand gravity so well here.

  • Production constraints and supply hoarding could complicate manufacturing.

  • Researchers have been warning for months that production constraints and hoarding could limit Covid-19 vaccine supplies.

  • The payoff was a liberating and original way of viewing your own society, denuded of its specialness and its constraints.

  • “They kept saying there was a time constraint, I had to make a decision,” she said.

  • In short, Mr. Obama feels no constraint in faithfully executing the laws as written by the Congress.

  • Gravity is transformed from the constraint that holds us dully to Earth into the power that lets us fly.

  • Immigration is even less "easy", because the main constraint on foriegn doctors is not visas, but residency slots.

  • We need to be prudent; in an era of budget constraint, I think it will turn out that little fixes will have the greatest payoff.

  • In that case, Valerie, you shall suffer no constraint; you shall continue here as you have done.

  • Austerity banishes familiarity from family life and engenders constraint.

  • His gestures, his manner, showed trace of it in a certain constraint, a sort of hesitating distrust.

  • At lunch Susan, between Liosha and Jaffery, became the centre of attention and saved conversation from constraint.

  • So, after a little constraint and coldness, he began to stand in much the same relation to him as before.