limit
英 [ˈlɪm.ɪt]
美 [ˈlɪm.ɪt]
记忆“limit”的方法是将它分解成“limb”(肢体)和“it”。想象一个物体的肢体被限制住了,不能动,这样就形象地记住了“limit”表示“限制”的意思。
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limit 限度,限制来自拉丁语limitem,边界,界限。引申词义界限,限制。
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limit: [14] Latin līmes originally denoted a ‘path between fields’, but it became extended metaphorically to any ‘boundary’ or ‘limit’, and that was the sense in which English acquired it (in its stem form līmit-).
=> lintel
- limit (n.)
- c. 1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.
- limit (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French limiter "mark (a boundary), restrict; specify," from Latin limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: limited; limiting.
- 1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.
- 有些情况下有最低年龄限制。
- 2. They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
- 他们通过实施低技术规格拼命限制成本。
- 3. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.
- 3个月的限期截至6月中旬。
- 4. He was nearly three times over the drink drive limit.
- 他超过醉酒驾驶规定标准快三倍了。
- 5. A speed limit of 30 mph was introduced in built-up areas.
- 在建筑密集区域,车速限制为每小时30英里。