Circumscribe

(verb.) draw a line around; 'He drew a circle around the points'.

(verb.) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect.

校对:佩里

• Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It is no sandy plain, nor any circumscribed and scant oasis I seem to realize. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Bell was undoubtedly the first inventor of the art of transmitting speech over an electric circuit, but, with his particular form of telephone, the field was circumscribed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Even highly educated men had the most circumscribed ideas of geography and foreign countries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This was no actual world, it was the dream-world of one's childhood--a great circumscribed reminiscence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was as unreal, and circumscribed, as a magic-lantern show. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• No, it ain't that,' said Sam, '“circumscribed”; that's it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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