Limitation
[lɪmɪ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,lɪmɪ'teʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation).
(noun.) the quality of being limited or restricted; 'it is a good plan but it has serious limitations'.
(noun.) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought; 'statute of limitations'.
錄入:洛根--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
(v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
(v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
(v. t.) A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
(v. t.) A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
(v. t.) A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
(v. t.) A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.
手打:内蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Restriction, restraint.
校對:罗赞
例句/造句/用法:
- At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The philosophy of her nature, and its limitation by circumstances, was almost written in her movements. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In the subsequent chapters (XVIII-XXII) we considered the present limitation of its actual realization. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- His lips trembled and stood apart, as he followed this repudiation of himself; and limitation of her words to her brother. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For many uses the fact that anyone suitably equipped can listen in on a wireless telephone talk would be a serious limitation to its use. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The fourth limitation is derived from the inconstancy of the cause of these passions, and from the short duration of its connexion with ourselves. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This description must be received with a week-day limitation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But limitation of capacity is one of the things which has to be learned; like other things, it is learned through the experience of consequences. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The third limitation is, that the pleasant or painful object be very discernible and obvious, and that not only to ourselves, but to others also. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- That civilization had been a civilization of wealth and political power sustained by the limitation and slavery of the great mass of mankind. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was the insistence on the limitation which so bored Birkin in Gerald. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Both the Christian church and Islam demonstrated the unsoundness of Aristotle's limitation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And when the animating motive is desire for private profit or personal power, this limitation is inevitable. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Yet his account of the Eightfold Path is, nevertheless, within these limitations, profoundly wise. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Wilson, at least, knows the limitations of his philosophy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- They were limited in knowledge and outlook; they were limited by the limitations of the time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The community of will is limited in size by the limitations set upon the possibilities of a community of knowledge. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But Akbar, like all men, great or petty, lived within the limitations of his period and its circles of ideas. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Inventors have found, however, that high speed is handicapped with certain limitations. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Thus it was that Tarzan learned by experience the limitations as well as the possibilities of his strange weapon. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In fact, the inherent limitations of experience are often urged as the sufficient ground for attention to thinking. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Regard must be had to their traditions, their opportunities, and their limitations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I shall close this subject with a reflection derived from these five limitations. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- There are human limitations even for such a tireless worker as he is. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He saw their limitations and restrictions. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was plainly seen that economic and political limitations were ultimately dependent upon limitations of thought and feeling. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- You acknowledge no rules--no limitations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The enduring value of these books lies in the clear idea they give us of the quality and limitations of the ruling minds of this age. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:奥利弗