confine

/kənˈfaɪn/ 动词 B2

中文：局限、囿于

To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. (transitive)

He/she/it confines · 过去式 confined · 过去分词 confined · -ing形式 confining

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“You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back.

‘You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men.

“There _is_ something a little stately in him, to be sure,” replied her aunt; “but it is confined to his air, and is not unbecoming.

A severe and unseasonable attack of grippe had confined that good lady to her house ever since the occasion of her last visit to Green Gables.

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