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off-limits

/awf-lim-its, of-/US // ˈɔfˈlɪm ɪts, ˈɒf- //

禁区,禁区内,禁区外,禁足区

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons: The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.

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Examples

  • Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • In other words, the Air Force is saying that its drone force has been stretched to its limits.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • I went out, and found a Mont de Piet, just beyond the limits of the Principality; they aren't allowed inside.

  • And it is quite true that the particular employer can no more break away from these limits than he can jump out of his own skin.

  • Champlain limits this appellation to the tribes that dwell upon the Ottawa.

  • First of all comes astronomy, including the phenomena exhibited in the heavens, beyond the limits of the earth's atmosphere.