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n. 疆界, 界线, 范围

  1. A school of psychology that confines itself to the study of observable and quantifiable aspects of behavior and excludes subjective phenomena, such as emotions or motives.
    行为科学主义心理学的一个流派,着重研究行为中可以观察到的、可以量化的方面,排除主观现象,如感情或动机
  2. The hermetic confines of an isolated life.
    与世隔绝生活的不受外界干扰的区域
  3. This is beyond the confines of human knowledge.
    这个已超出人类知识的界限。


confines
[ noun ]
a bounded scope
<noun.attribute>
he stayed within the confines of the city


  1. He manages both to relate freshly to everyone else onstage and to suggest that Hamlet's mind is always at one remove from everyone around him. Remarkably, he achieves this by working within very narrow confines.
  2. A former RSC regular, Pennington and director Michael Bogdanov started their company in November 1986 to reinvigorate the Bard's plays outside the institutional confines of London's large subsidized companies.
  3. She may find it hard to escape the confines of imperial life, having to make do with occasional appearances at state dinners, charity functions and sports tournaments.
  4. He had not left the confines of his bedroom and bathroom for more than 15 years and had not worn clothes in a decade.
  5. Noise induced deafness among brass players and percussionists is a prime concern, especially in the confines of a pit orchestra.
  6. Many people milled around their cots; others escaped the shelter's smelly, noisy confines to enjoy the crisp, clear evening outside.
  7. His Boris is commanding, but not yet charismatic. Geneva opts for the original 1869 version - an austere succession of seven panels which confines music and drama to bare essentials.
  8. When it's time for their biannual powwow, the nation's manufacturing titans typically jet off to the sunny confines of resort towns like Boca Raton and Hot Springs.
  9. "This plebian, having aspirations beyond his humble station in life, wandered beyond the confines of his own pastures and sought the society of the adolescent and unsophisticated Martha," Justice John Barnes wrote.
  10. They're seen as playing the game according to the rules, through peaceful opposition within the confines of Parliament." He says there's no telling whether the SNP will capitalize on its triumph.
  11. The Pale Pachyderms propelled six of 'em out of the unfriendly confines of Candlestick Park during the two games en route to 13-7 and 9-6 wins over the San Francisco Giants.
  12. For a while, the adoption of a Soviet style promised to enlarge decisively the emotional confines of American dance.
  13. If Nedo confines itself to promoting consensus between political parties, employers and trade unions, it will be limited to the terrain which the parties have chosen, for their own reasons.
  14. Some early surveyors understandably decided to draw property lines from the confines of their offices.
  15. Sir, Mr Eddie George's comments on the rule of business in fighting inflation ('Bank governor tells businesses to hold margins', November 4) left me wondering quite how he imagines the world to be organised outside the confines of Threadneedle Street.
  16. Lawyers said the measure could narrow the judiciary's scope by forcing judges to rule within the confines of laws passed by Parliament rather than by applying broader legal concepts.
  17. As deals dry up in areas familiar to the Bells, "you have to call into question their ability to analyze potential acquisitions not within the confines of telecommunications," PaineWebber's Mr. Grubman says.
  18. When left with a bundle of bills after her husband dies in an explosion, an enraged teen-age son and a younger, more introverted son, she copes by leaving comfortable suburbia for the rough and crowded confines of Baltimore's inner city.
  19. Miss Burditt admits to having a good time as she confines her bent for murder to the scripts of ABC's "Father Dowling Mysteries" and the NBC legal drama, "Matlock."
  20. Beyond The Troubles finds former hostage Brian Keenan talking to people who have stepped beyond the confines of 'the long war' (11.00).
  21. "This crucial discovery provided the first definite proof that other galaxies existed far beyond the confines of our own local galaxy," the institute said.
  22. Miss Keith confines herself to the upper-class cooing and whooping that she has amusingly deployed for 20-odd years, prunes and prisms all over the stage; but, as with riding a bicycle, when she starts to think about how she does it, uncertainty results.
  23. That identifies the residents as "troublemakers" in Israel's view and confines them to the Gaza Strip.
  24. She was accompanied by an aide and a small security detail as she took advantage of the chance to exercise a public spontaneity that is almost impossible within the confines of the White House.
  25. "Pop was a man of integrity, within the confines of his own concept of what was right and wrong, the same as Gino in `Things Change.'
  26. Despite the confines of their disappointed lives, however, Mr. Banks's characters are dreamers and strivers.
  27. The teaching method either "liberates" a child's creativity or "confines and kills it," she says.
  28. The Soviet Union's premier couturier, he has finally broken out of the confines of his Moscow House of Fashion and made it to the West.
  29. The illness eventually confines victims to bed and renders them unable to respond to their environment, Naughton said.
  30. As an American academic, I feel a personal interest in the Silva case, but its ramifications extend far beyond the confines of American academia.
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