circumscribe

英 [ˈsɜːkəmskraɪb]

美 [ˈsɜːrkəmskraɪb]

v.  限制，约束(自由、权利、权力等); 画…的外接圆

过去分词：circumscribed　过去式：circumscribed　第三人称单数：circumscribes　现在分词：circumscribing　复数：circumscribes　

TOEFLGRE

BNC.19458 / COCA.16931

牛津词典

verb

• 限制，约束（自由、权利、权力等）
  to limit sb/sth's freedom, rights, power, etc.
  1. The power of the monarchy was circumscribed by the new law.
     君主统治的权力受到了新法律的制约。
• 画…的外接圆
  to draw a circle around another shape

柯林斯词典

• VERB 约束;制约;限制
  If someone's power or freedomis circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
  1. The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed...
     军方显然担心在他的领导下，其活动将受到严重制约。
  2. There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
     有多项法律限制公民的权利，使其不得对他人进行人身伤害。

双语例句

• Observation on the clinical therapeutic efficacy of circumscribe choroidal hemangiomas
  虹膜睫状体脉络膜炎孤立性脉络膜血管瘤的临床疗效观察
• The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed
  军方显然担心在他的领导下，其活动将受到严重制约。
• Here the basic method to circumscribe contradiction is paraconsistent logic.
  这里，限制矛盾的基本手法是次协调逻辑。
• Circumscribe one's activities within narrow bounds
  把自己的活动限制在狭小的范围之内
• In some industrial measuring and controlling occasion, it's not expediency to conjunct some devices to the master control computer with cable, while exploiting radio will raise disturbance and the circumscribe of utility application.
  在一些工业测控场合中，有些设备与主控机之间不便进行有线连接，而采用无线电又会增加干扰和申请应用上的限制。
• There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
  有多项法律限制公民的权利，使其不得对他人进行人身伤害。
• Though this cause and effect is obvious, reporters and economists choose to circumscribe the real explanation.
  尽管这种因果关系十分明晰，新闻记者和经济学家还是在真正的答案边上绕弯子。
• But the terms and timetable of the reforms allow the banks ample scope to circumscribe the intent.
  不过，改革的条件及时间表为银行留下了充裕的空间，对改革的含义作出限定。
• As a result, the developed countries regard the anti-trust as the main task to circumscribe the foreign capital MA and as the primary principle of legislation on MA.
  因此，发达市场经济国家都把反垄断作为对外资并购实行规制的首要任务，并将其确定为外资并购立法的首要原则。
• The principal has requested all teachers to circumscribe failures in red on the report cards.
  校长要求所有老师把成绩单上不及格的人用红笔圈起来。