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on-limits

/on-lim-its, awn-/US // ˈɒnˈlɪm ɪts, ˈɔn- //

严禁,严禁使用,严禁超过,严惩不贷

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : open or not prohibited to certain persons, as military personnel: an on-limits area.

Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • 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.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • 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.

  • I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

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

  • Kingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.