Definition of confine in English:

confine

verb kənˈfʌɪnkənˈfaɪn

[with object]confine someone/something to

1Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time)
限制；使局限
he does not confine his message to high politics
他的观点并不仅局限于偏激的政治见解。
you've confined yourself to what you know
你只局限于你知道的事。
Example sentencesExamples
- He worked assiduously to confine the judges to their legal duties, and tried to limit their contacts with Versailles by forbidding them from sitting on the councils of the princes.
- Ministers who kept their mouths shut and confined their views to Cabinet meetings feel betrayed.
- I must confine my writing to the inside, enclose it within a perimeter, which forms a circular line, an orbit around the text.
- In this sense, popular culture functions as a trap to confine the imagination to stereotypical images of Indian people.
- He doesn't allow partisanship to affect the main body of his work on international trade and monetary policy; he confines his misstatements to areas he doesn't know much about, like energy economics.
- Consequently, some areas of town are isolated, and thus confine their residents to staying close to home.
- The furniture in this exhibition is not confined to gallery spaces, however.
- In subsequent years, Givon would confine her efforts to the main gallery spaces in the Monument.
- If anything, increasingly independent boards of directors are overseeing the succession process and are less likely to confine their search to the best candidate within the company.
- For space reasons we have confined the study to British and Irish directors at the top nine publicly quoted companies.
- Either this determination is not made, however, or it is confined to mutually antagonistic pockets of conviction within the church.
- I propose to confine my comments to matters of general policy within the Club.
- Early guideline efforts confined their scope to preconception counselling, pregnancy, and birth.
- Considering these will strengthen the proposal by grounding it in the dynamic of an ongoing reality; failure to do so will confine its discussion to the narrow scope of the academy.
- Space themes are not confined to futuristic fictional series on television, although these are by far the best known and the greatest revenue generators.
- In particular, it said, the terms were too restrictive in confining the examination to just three hospitals and to deceased children under 12 years who were born alive.
- These days, most scholars confine their researches to a narrow stretch of time and space.
- It needs to be planted away from buildings and underground pipes because it develops rather fat roots which are known to lift paving and crack pools if it is confined to too small a space.
- The lack of high profile politicos was noted as the bride and groom confined the guest list to family and close friends.
- The great majority of women within fascist movements were confined to activities generally considered to be suited to their nature - essentially welfare work.
Synonyms
enclose, incarcerate, imprison, intern, impound, hold captive, trap
shut in/up, keep, pen in/up, cage, lock in/up, coop (up), box up/in, immure, mew up
fence in, hedge in, hurdle, rail in, wall in/up
encircle, surround, ring, encompass, hem in, close in, kettle
North American corral
rare gird, compass
restrict, limit
keep within the limits of, not allow to go beyond
1. 1.1confine someone to/in Restrain or forbid someone from leaving (a place)
  禁止离开；关押，监禁；禁闭
  the troops were confined to their barracks
  军队被关在营房。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A good teacher really does keep pointing the way upward and forward, and really does let the student grow without confining him in a cage.
  The psychologist warned that it would be harmful to confine him in the punitive ‘management unit’ or among men in the Red 1 compound designed for ‘long-term behaviour management’.
  Wet, cold soil can be a killer of the hardiest of plants, especially when they are confined in a pot.
  You are in detention in the sense of being detained and you may be detained even though you are not confined to a particular place.
  If each wall in this room were painted this color, you'd feel as if you were confined in a tight little box, albeit a box of a pretty color.
  It was for this reason she was confined to her room until someone was sent to get her.
  For six months she was confined in the Jewish ghetto, then she was transferred to Dachau, near Munich.
  Their anatomy was half-human, half-animal, and they were confined in a low-ceilinged, windowless and oddly proportioned space.
  Early in 1846 he was confined in an asylum in Paris.
  Under impeachment he was confined in the Tower from 1679 to 1684.
  Most dramatically, the state can use the fact of a prior conviction as the basis for confining someone in a mental institution, even after he has completed his prison sentence.
  They confined her in a hotel room under a doctor's care, but after only two days of this, she began showing symptoms of high blood pressure, dehydration, and stress.
  There they were confined in an utterly alien climate, with a resulting death toll of some forty percent, until the winter of 1913-14.
  At present, six million pregnant sows in the EU are confined in stalls, including many in the Republic of Ireland.
  A highly infectious disease, it passes easily from sheep to sheep, particularly when they are confined in a small space, during housing, periods of supplementary feeding or even in handling yards.
  If a man steals or kills somebody, according to newly found ‘blanket’ wisdom of ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ there is no need to punish the guilty and confine him to the jail or send him to the gallows.
  Instead of yelling at me, he threw me over his shoulder, strode down the main deck, and tossed me in the room I was confined in before.
  Until late December 1991 he was confined in various psychiatric hospitals.
  The Church, however, forbade Galileo to teach the theory and eventually confined him to house arrest until his death in 1642.
  But I think it would be for the best that we wait until she is confined in a jail cell, it may be too hard to keep her under control in the open like this.
  Synonyms
  send, deliver, hand over, give over, turn over, sentence
2. 1.2be confined to (of a person) be unable to leave (one's bed, home, or a wheelchair) because of illness or disability.
  （人）（因疾病、残疾）无法离开（床，家，轮椅）
  he was confined to bed for four days with a bad dose of flu
  Example sentencesExamples
  The boss has a daughter who is confined to a wheelchair by a psychosomatic illness.
  He is confined to a wheelchair and he hopes his own story will help change the minds of politicians who are opposed to lifting bans on therapeutic cloning.
  She was confined to a wheelchair, could not recognise her parents and was given a year to live.
  The youngster, who is confined to a wheelchair, is unable to breathe or swallow unaided and the only parts unaffected are her brain, heart, eyes and ears.
  When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair.
  His greatest disappointment was being confined to his bed by illness for two weeks of the campaign.
  It's just that she's confined to bed these days and she gets bored, so she makes things up.
  He lost seven stone in weight and was eventually confined to bed, relying on a nebuliser to help him breathe.
  He was hospitalised, endured numerous operations, was confined to a wheelchair for many months and kept out of school for a year.
  The patient, named only as Mrs H, was confined to a wheelchair and never left the home.
  But being confined to a wheelchair has not deterred him from tireless fundraising to help makeover the school's sensory garden in memory of three pupils who died last year.
  Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits.
  Despite being confined to a wheelchair he enjoys going for a pint in his local pub and seeing his friends.
  He will also meet and be shown around the ground floor flat of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair.
  He was confined to a wheelchair and told that he would never walk again.
  The 40-year-old is confined to a wheelchair, but can't wait to try his dad's invention.
  Over a period of four months he became increasingly weak and was eventually confined to bed.
  She had recently fallen and fractured her pelvis and was confined to a wheel chair.
  But despite the need for twice-daily physiotherapy, constant dependency on antibiotics and in her final months being confined to a wheelchair, she stayed positive throughout.
  When she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 17, the Failsworth mother-of-two was confined to a wheelchair.
3. 1.3be confineddated (of a woman) remain in bed for a period before, during, and after giving birth.
  〈旧〉（妇女）卧床分娩；坐月子
  she was confined for nearly a month
  她坐月子将近一个月。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The prisoner gave evidence on oath to the effect that she was confined before she expected to be, and was unconscious for two hours immediately after her delivery.

noun ˈkɒnfʌɪnˈkɑnfaɪn

confines

1The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement.
（尤指某个地方限制行动自由的）界限；边界；范围
within the confines of the hall escape was difficult
在礼堂范围之内逃跑是困难的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Above that, a balcony, which stretched to the confines of the building, was also filled with books.
- It is only an hour or so from Rome's major airports, but once within the confines of the grounds it is unlikely that you will stray too far.
- Where the damage has been done is internally, within the confines of Northern Ireland.
- Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband.
- Food, in the confines of jail, takes on a more basic and urgent quality than it does outside.
- The buildings are to be located within the confines of the existing Waste Water Treatment Works.
- This sort of detail should never leave the confines of the hospital.
- In reality she couldn't think of a safe place within the confines of the building.
- I protested, trying to make my way out of the confines of the restricting hospital sheets.
- Yet his greatest rebuilding effort has been accomplished, not on the court, but within the confines of his own home.
- Religion is a personal belief and a private matter and should be kept within the confines of our home.
- Anything said or done within the confines of the European team room should, in my opinion, remain private.
- For some, the fast-food joint is the only option if they want to escape the confines of a cramped house for a couple of hours.
- The director creatively allows the audience to look beyond the confines of the theatre space.
- This means finding a building within the confines of the town boundary but not too close to the centre of the town.
- It seems that this caring does not extend outside the confines of our own country, our island, our citadel.
- As she breathed over me in the confines of the cubicle it was clear that she'd been drinking garlic coffee for most of the morning.
- These crumbs went onto the desk, the floor and a few remained within the confines of the wrapper.
- Have we not been burning our women within the confines of our homes, young women who have not brought enough dowry?
- While in the open desert the tank is king, in the confines of city streets the guerrilla fighter comes into his own.
Synonyms
limits, outer limits, borders, boundaries, margins, extremities, edges, fringes, marches
periphery, perimeter, circumference, compass, precinct, pale
1. 1.1 The limits of something abstract, especially a sphere of activity.
  〈喻〉（尤指学科或活动领域的）界限；范围
  the narrow confines of political life
  政治生活的狭小领域。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is a criminal trial and it will stay within the confines of the rules of evidence and procedure.
  It is not exactly a call to revolution, but within the confines of the Catholic Church, it has seen him cast as a liberal reformist.
  It could also be resentment at the confines of a syllabus and the restrictions that must be placed on students.
  It is difficult to always live within the confines of a contradiction that passes as a policy.
  But that is not an exclusive challenge for those within the confines of what some choose to call the new economy.
  In a way, I guess that being true to myself outside of the confines of the written word is a somewhat impossible task.
  And it is unlikely that the ripple effects of such success would be contained within the confines of sport.
  Much as we realise the task by police to combat crime, that should done within the confines of the law.
  He is not, and never has been, caught up solely within the confines of Catholicism in terms of his music and his philosophy.
  Where some feel constricted by the confines of professionalism, others find comfort in its regimens.
  Positive word of mouth pushed the drug far beyond the confines of the rave scene.
  But it has not yet been able to break out of the confines of documents and seminar halls.
  There sole aim must not just be to entice as many clients as possible but to do business within the confines of the law.
  Well, you used to be able to anyway, I'm sure they are now operating totally within the confines of their licence.
  Inevitably the debate before me has ranged a little wider than the narrow confines of that question.
  The slave is forced by necessity to fight for his freedom within the confines of society.
  However, discussion usually drifted well away from the confines of these topics.
  Laura, stifled by the confines of her religion and her boyfriend, dreams of freedom and the ocean.
  There is nothing wrong for a guru and chela to learn and practise mysterious rituals within the confines of the law.
  My birding is restricted only by my own inability to escape from the confines of city life.
  Synonyms
  extent, range, breadth, width, reach, sweep, purview, span, stretch, spread, horizon

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun): from French confins (plural noun), from Latin confinia, from confinis 'bordering', from con- 'together' + finis 'end, limit' (plural fines 'territory'). The verb senses are from French confiner, based on Latin confinis.

Rhymes

align, assign, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine

Definition of confine in US English:

confine

verbkənˈfīnkənˈfaɪn

[with object]confine someone/something to

1Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, quantity, or time)
限制；使局限
he does not confine his message to politics
他的观点并不仅局限于偏激的政治见解。
you've confined yourself to what you know
你只局限于你知道的事。
your boating will mostly be confined to a few hours at weekends
你通常只限于在周末划几个小时船。
Example sentencesExamples
- The great majority of women within fascist movements were confined to activities generally considered to be suited to their nature - essentially welfare work.
- He worked assiduously to confine the judges to their legal duties, and tried to limit their contacts with Versailles by forbidding them from sitting on the councils of the princes.
- If anything, increasingly independent boards of directors are overseeing the succession process and are less likely to confine their search to the best candidate within the company.
- For space reasons we have confined the study to British and Irish directors at the top nine publicly quoted companies.
- Consequently, some areas of town are isolated, and thus confine their residents to staying close to home.
- Early guideline efforts confined their scope to preconception counselling, pregnancy, and birth.
- Considering these will strengthen the proposal by grounding it in the dynamic of an ongoing reality; failure to do so will confine its discussion to the narrow scope of the academy.
- The furniture in this exhibition is not confined to gallery spaces, however.
- Space themes are not confined to futuristic fictional series on television, although these are by far the best known and the greatest revenue generators.
- The lack of high profile politicos was noted as the bride and groom confined the guest list to family and close friends.
- He doesn't allow partisanship to affect the main body of his work on international trade and monetary policy; he confines his misstatements to areas he doesn't know much about, like energy economics.
- In subsequent years, Givon would confine her efforts to the main gallery spaces in the Monument.
- In this sense, popular culture functions as a trap to confine the imagination to stereotypical images of Indian people.
- These days, most scholars confine their researches to a narrow stretch of time and space.
- In particular, it said, the terms were too restrictive in confining the examination to just three hospitals and to deceased children under 12 years who were born alive.
- I propose to confine my comments to matters of general policy within the Club.
- I must confine my writing to the inside, enclose it within a perimeter, which forms a circular line, an orbit around the text.
- Either this determination is not made, however, or it is confined to mutually antagonistic pockets of conviction within the church.
- It needs to be planted away from buildings and underground pipes because it develops rather fat roots which are known to lift paving and crack pools if it is confined to too small a space.
- Ministers who kept their mouths shut and confined their views to Cabinet meetings feel betrayed.
Synonyms
enclose, incarcerate, imprison, intern, impound, hold captive, trap
restrict, limit
1. 1.1confine someone to/in Restrain or forbid someone from leaving (a place)
  禁止离开；关押，监禁；禁闭
  the troops were confined to their barracks
  军队被关在营房。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At present, six million pregnant sows in the EU are confined in stalls, including many in the Republic of Ireland.
  Wet, cold soil can be a killer of the hardiest of plants, especially when they are confined in a pot.
  It was for this reason she was confined to her room until someone was sent to get her.
  Instead of yelling at me, he threw me over his shoulder, strode down the main deck, and tossed me in the room I was confined in before.
  Early in 1846 he was confined in an asylum in Paris.
  Until late December 1991 he was confined in various psychiatric hospitals.
  A highly infectious disease, it passes easily from sheep to sheep, particularly when they are confined in a small space, during housing, periods of supplementary feeding or even in handling yards.
  Their anatomy was half-human, half-animal, and they were confined in a low-ceilinged, windowless and oddly proportioned space.
  They confined her in a hotel room under a doctor's care, but after only two days of this, she began showing symptoms of high blood pressure, dehydration, and stress.
  There they were confined in an utterly alien climate, with a resulting death toll of some forty percent, until the winter of 1913-14.
  Under impeachment he was confined in the Tower from 1679 to 1684.
  A good teacher really does keep pointing the way upward and forward, and really does let the student grow without confining him in a cage.
  But I think it would be for the best that we wait until she is confined in a jail cell, it may be too hard to keep her under control in the open like this.
  The psychologist warned that it would be harmful to confine him in the punitive ‘management unit’ or among men in the Red 1 compound designed for ‘long-term behaviour management’.
  Most dramatically, the state can use the fact of a prior conviction as the basis for confining someone in a mental institution, even after he has completed his prison sentence.
  If each wall in this room were painted this color, you'd feel as if you were confined in a tight little box, albeit a box of a pretty color.
  The Church, however, forbade Galileo to teach the theory and eventually confined him to house arrest until his death in 1642.
  You are in detention in the sense of being detained and you may be detained even though you are not confined to a particular place.
  For six months she was confined in the Jewish ghetto, then she was transferred to Dachau, near Munich.
  If a man steals or kills somebody, according to newly found ‘blanket’ wisdom of ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ there is no need to punish the guilty and confine him to the jail or send him to the gallows.
  Synonyms
  send, deliver, hand over, give over, turn over, sentence
2. 1.2be confined to (of a person) be unable to leave (one's bed, home, or a wheelchair) because of illness or disability.
  （人）（因疾病、残疾）无法离开（床，家，轮椅）
  he was confined to bed for four days with a bad dose of flu
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is confined to a wheelchair and he hopes his own story will help change the minds of politicians who are opposed to lifting bans on therapeutic cloning.
  She was confined to a wheelchair, could not recognise her parents and was given a year to live.
  It's just that she's confined to bed these days and she gets bored, so she makes things up.
  When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair.
  The youngster, who is confined to a wheelchair, is unable to breathe or swallow unaided and the only parts unaffected are her brain, heart, eyes and ears.
  Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits.
  The 40-year-old is confined to a wheelchair, but can't wait to try his dad's invention.
  Over a period of four months he became increasingly weak and was eventually confined to bed.
  When she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 17, the Failsworth mother-of-two was confined to a wheelchair.
  He will also meet and be shown around the ground floor flat of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair.
  He lost seven stone in weight and was eventually confined to bed, relying on a nebuliser to help him breathe.
  She had recently fallen and fractured her pelvis and was confined to a wheel chair.
  The boss has a daughter who is confined to a wheelchair by a psychosomatic illness.
  The patient, named only as Mrs H, was confined to a wheelchair and never left the home.
  His greatest disappointment was being confined to his bed by illness for two weeks of the campaign.
  Despite being confined to a wheelchair he enjoys going for a pint in his local pub and seeing his friends.
  But despite the need for twice-daily physiotherapy, constant dependency on antibiotics and in her final months being confined to a wheelchair, she stayed positive throughout.
  But being confined to a wheelchair has not deterred him from tireless fundraising to help makeover the school's sensory garden in memory of three pupils who died last year.
  He was hospitalised, endured numerous operations, was confined to a wheelchair for many months and kept out of school for a year.
  He was confined to a wheelchair and told that he would never walk again.
3. 1.3be confineddated (of a woman) remain in bed for a period before, during, and after the birth of a child.
  〈旧〉（妇女）卧床分娩；坐月子
  she was confined for nearly a month
  她坐月子将近一个月。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The prisoner gave evidence on oath to the effect that she was confined before she expected to be, and was unconscious for two hours immediately after her delivery.

nounˈkänfīnˈkɑnfaɪn

confines

1The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement.
（尤指某个地方限制行动自由的）界限；边界；范围
they were cramped within the confines of a little cabin
Example sentencesExamples
- This sort of detail should never leave the confines of the hospital.
- In reality she couldn't think of a safe place within the confines of the building.
- This means finding a building within the confines of the town boundary but not too close to the centre of the town.
- Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband.
- Food, in the confines of jail, takes on a more basic and urgent quality than it does outside.
- Above that, a balcony, which stretched to the confines of the building, was also filled with books.
- Anything said or done within the confines of the European team room should, in my opinion, remain private.
- I protested, trying to make my way out of the confines of the restricting hospital sheets.
- Where the damage has been done is internally, within the confines of Northern Ireland.
- While in the open desert the tank is king, in the confines of city streets the guerrilla fighter comes into his own.
- These crumbs went onto the desk, the floor and a few remained within the confines of the wrapper.
- The buildings are to be located within the confines of the existing Waste Water Treatment Works.
- It seems that this caring does not extend outside the confines of our own country, our island, our citadel.
- It is only an hour or so from Rome's major airports, but once within the confines of the grounds it is unlikely that you will stray too far.
- As she breathed over me in the confines of the cubicle it was clear that she'd been drinking garlic coffee for most of the morning.
- For some, the fast-food joint is the only option if they want to escape the confines of a cramped house for a couple of hours.
- Have we not been burning our women within the confines of our homes, young women who have not brought enough dowry?
- Religion is a personal belief and a private matter and should be kept within the confines of our home.
- Yet his greatest rebuilding effort has been accomplished, not on the court, but within the confines of his own home.
- The director creatively allows the audience to look beyond the confines of the theatre space.
Synonyms
limits, outer limits, borders, boundaries, margins, extremities, edges, fringes, marches
1. 1.1 The limits or restrictions of something abstract, especially a subject or sphere of activity.
  〈喻〉（尤指学科或活动领域的）界限；范围
  the narrow confines of political life
  政治生活的狭小领域。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it has not yet been able to break out of the confines of documents and seminar halls.
  Where some feel constricted by the confines of professionalism, others find comfort in its regimens.
  There sole aim must not just be to entice as many clients as possible but to do business within the confines of the law.
  There is nothing wrong for a guru and chela to learn and practise mysterious rituals within the confines of the law.
  It could also be resentment at the confines of a syllabus and the restrictions that must be placed on students.
  Much as we realise the task by police to combat crime, that should done within the confines of the law.
  But that is not an exclusive challenge for those within the confines of what some choose to call the new economy.
  It is not exactly a call to revolution, but within the confines of the Catholic Church, it has seen him cast as a liberal reformist.
  This is a criminal trial and it will stay within the confines of the rules of evidence and procedure.
  Positive word of mouth pushed the drug far beyond the confines of the rave scene.
  He is not, and never has been, caught up solely within the confines of Catholicism in terms of his music and his philosophy.
  The slave is forced by necessity to fight for his freedom within the confines of society.
  And it is unlikely that the ripple effects of such success would be contained within the confines of sport.
  Inevitably the debate before me has ranged a little wider than the narrow confines of that question.
  In a way, I guess that being true to myself outside of the confines of the written word is a somewhat impossible task.
  It is difficult to always live within the confines of a contradiction that passes as a policy.
  However, discussion usually drifted well away from the confines of these topics.
  My birding is restricted only by my own inability to escape from the confines of city life.
  Laura, stifled by the confines of her religion and her boyfriend, dreams of freedom and the ocean.
  Well, you used to be able to anyway, I'm sure they are now operating totally within the confines of their licence.
  Synonyms
  extent, range, breadth, width, reach, sweep, purview, span, stretch, spread, horizon

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun): from French confins (plural noun), from Latin confinia, from confinis ‘bordering’, from con- ‘together’ + finis ‘end, limit’ (plural fines ‘territory’). The verb senses are from French confiner, based on Latin confinis.

单词	confine
释义	Definition of confine in English: confine verb kənˈfʌɪnkənˈfaɪn [with object]confine someone/something to 1Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time) 限制；使局限 he does not confine his message to high politics 他的观点并不仅局限于偏激的政治见解。 you've confined yourself to what you know 你只局限于你知道的事。 Example sentencesExamples He worked assiduously to confine the judges to their legal duties, and tried to limit their contacts with Versailles by forbidding them from sitting on the councils of the princes. Ministers who kept their mouths shut and confined their views to Cabinet meetings feel betrayed. I must confine my writing to the inside, enclose it within a perimeter, which forms a circular line, an orbit around the text. In this sense, popular culture functions as a trap to confine the imagination to stereotypical images of Indian people. He doesn't allow partisanship to affect the main body of his work on international trade and monetary policy; he confines his misstatements to areas he doesn't know much about, like energy economics. Consequently, some areas of town are isolated, and thus confine their residents to staying close to home. The furniture in this exhibition is not confined to gallery spaces, however. In subsequent years, Givon would confine her efforts to the main gallery spaces in the Monument. If anything, increasingly independent boards of directors are overseeing the succession process and are less likely to confine their search to the best candidate within the company. For space reasons we have confined the study to British and Irish directors at the top nine publicly quoted companies. Either this determination is not made, however, or it is confined to mutually antagonistic pockets of conviction within the church. I propose to confine my comments to matters of general policy within the Club. Early guideline efforts confined their scope to preconception counselling, pregnancy, and birth. Considering these will strengthen the proposal by grounding it in the dynamic of an ongoing reality; failure to do so will confine its discussion to the narrow scope of the academy. Space themes are not confined to futuristic fictional series on television, although these are by far the best known and the greatest revenue generators. In particular, it said, the terms were too restrictive in confining the examination to just three hospitals and to deceased children under 12 years who were born alive. These days, most scholars confine their researches to a narrow stretch of time and space. It needs to be planted away from buildings and underground pipes because it develops rather fat roots which are known to lift paving and crack pools if it is confined to too small a space. The lack of high profile politicos was noted as the bride and groom confined the guest list to family and close friends. The great majority of women within fascist movements were confined to activities generally considered to be suited to their nature - essentially welfare work. Synonyms enclose, incarcerate, imprison, intern, impound, hold captive, trap shut in/up, keep, pen in/up, cage, lock in/up, coop (up), box up/in, immure, mew up fence in, hedge in, hurdle, rail in, wall in/up encircle, surround, ring, encompass, hem in, close in, kettle North American corral rare gird, compass restrict, limit keep within the limits of, not allow to go beyond 1.1confine someone to/in Restrain or forbid someone from leaving (a place) 禁止离开；关押，监禁；禁闭 the troops were confined to their barracks 军队被关在营房。 Example sentencesExamples A good teacher really does keep pointing the way upward and forward, and really does let the student grow without confining him in a cage. The psychologist warned that it would be harmful to confine him in the punitive ‘management unit’ or among men in the Red 1 compound designed for ‘long-term behaviour management’. Wet, cold soil can be a killer of the hardiest of plants, especially when they are confined in a pot. You are in detention in the sense of being detained and you may be detained even though you are not confined to a particular place. If each wall in this room were painted this color, you'd feel as if you were confined in a tight little box, albeit a box of a pretty color. It was for this reason she was confined to her room until someone was sent to get her. For six months she was confined in the Jewish ghetto, then she was transferred to Dachau, near Munich. Their anatomy was half-human, half-animal, and they were confined in a low-ceilinged, windowless and oddly proportioned space. Early in 1846 he was confined in an asylum in Paris. Under impeachment he was confined in the Tower from 1679 to 1684. Most dramatically, the state can use the fact of a prior conviction as the basis for confining someone in a mental institution, even after he has completed his prison sentence. They confined her in a hotel room under a doctor's care, but after only two days of this, she began showing symptoms of high blood pressure, dehydration, and stress. There they were confined in an utterly alien climate, with a resulting death toll of some forty percent, until the winter of 1913-14. At present, six million pregnant sows in the EU are confined in stalls, including many in the Republic of Ireland. A highly infectious disease, it passes easily from sheep to sheep, particularly when they are confined in a small space, during housing, periods of supplementary feeding or even in handling yards. If a man steals or kills somebody, according to newly found ‘blanket’ wisdom of ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ there is no need to punish the guilty and confine him to the jail or send him to the gallows. Instead of yelling at me, he threw me over his shoulder, strode down the main deck, and tossed me in the room I was confined in before. Until late December 1991 he was confined in various psychiatric hospitals. The Church, however, forbade Galileo to teach the theory and eventually confined him to house arrest until his death in 1642. But I think it would be for the best that we wait until she is confined in a jail cell, it may be too hard to keep her under control in the open like this. Synonyms send, deliver, hand over, give over, turn over, sentence 1.2be confined to (of a person) be unable to leave (one's bed, home, or a wheelchair) because of illness or disability. （人）（因疾病、残疾）无法离开（床，家，轮椅） he was confined to bed for four days with a bad dose of flu Example sentencesExamples The boss has a daughter who is confined to a wheelchair by a psychosomatic illness. He is confined to a wheelchair and he hopes his own story will help change the minds of politicians who are opposed to lifting bans on therapeutic cloning. She was confined to a wheelchair, could not recognise her parents and was given a year to live. The youngster, who is confined to a wheelchair, is unable to breathe or swallow unaided and the only parts unaffected are her brain, heart, eyes and ears. When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair. His greatest disappointment was being confined to his bed by illness for two weeks of the campaign. It's just that she's confined to bed these days and she gets bored, so she makes things up. He lost seven stone in weight and was eventually confined to bed, relying on a nebuliser to help him breathe. He was hospitalised, endured numerous operations, was confined to a wheelchair for many months and kept out of school for a year. The patient, named only as Mrs H, was confined to a wheelchair and never left the home. But being confined to a wheelchair has not deterred him from tireless fundraising to help makeover the school's sensory garden in memory of three pupils who died last year. Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits. Despite being confined to a wheelchair he enjoys going for a pint in his local pub and seeing his friends. He will also meet and be shown around the ground floor flat of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair. He was confined to a wheelchair and told that he would never walk again. The 40-year-old is confined to a wheelchair, but can't wait to try his dad's invention. Over a period of four months he became increasingly weak and was eventually confined to bed. She had recently fallen and fractured her pelvis and was confined to a wheel chair. But despite the need for twice-daily physiotherapy, constant dependency on antibiotics and in her final months being confined to a wheelchair, she stayed positive throughout. When she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 17, the Failsworth mother-of-two was confined to a wheelchair. 1.3be confineddated (of a woman) remain in bed for a period before, during, and after giving birth. 〈旧〉（妇女）卧床分娩；坐月子 she was confined for nearly a month 她坐月子将近一个月。 Example sentencesExamples The prisoner gave evidence on oath to the effect that she was confined before she expected to be, and was unconscious for two hours immediately after her delivery. noun ˈkɒnfʌɪnˈkɑnfaɪn confines 1The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement. （尤指某个地方限制行动自由的）界限；边界；范围 within the confines of the hall escape was difficult 在礼堂范围之内逃跑是困难的。 Example sentencesExamples Above that, a balcony, which stretched to the confines of the building, was also filled with books. It is only an hour or so from Rome's major airports, but once within the confines of the grounds it is unlikely that you will stray too far. Where the damage has been done is internally, within the confines of Northern Ireland. Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband. Food, in the confines of jail, takes on a more basic and urgent quality than it does outside. The buildings are to be located within the confines of the existing Waste Water Treatment Works. This sort of detail should never leave the confines of the hospital. In reality she couldn't think of a safe place within the confines of the building. I protested, trying to make my way out of the confines of the restricting hospital sheets. Yet his greatest rebuilding effort has been accomplished, not on the court, but within the confines of his own home. Religion is a personal belief and a private matter and should be kept within the confines of our home. Anything said or done within the confines of the European team room should, in my opinion, remain private. For some, the fast-food joint is the only option if they want to escape the confines of a cramped house for a couple of hours. The director creatively allows the audience to look beyond the confines of the theatre space. This means finding a building within the confines of the town boundary but not too close to the centre of the town. It seems that this caring does not extend outside the confines of our own country, our island, our citadel. As she breathed over me in the confines of the cubicle it was clear that she'd been drinking garlic coffee for most of the morning. These crumbs went onto the desk, the floor and a few remained within the confines of the wrapper. Have we not been burning our women within the confines of our homes, young women who have not brought enough dowry? While in the open desert the tank is king, in the confines of city streets the guerrilla fighter comes into his own. Synonyms limits, outer limits, borders, boundaries, margins, extremities, edges, fringes, marches periphery, perimeter, circumference, compass, precinct, pale 1.1 The limits of something abstract, especially a sphere of activity. 〈喻〉（尤指学科或活动领域的）界限；范围 the narrow confines of political life 政治生活的狭小领域。 Example sentencesExamples This is a criminal trial and it will stay within the confines of the rules of evidence and procedure. It is not exactly a call to revolution, but within the confines of the Catholic Church, it has seen him cast as a liberal reformist. It could also be resentment at the confines of a syllabus and the restrictions that must be placed on students. It is difficult to always live within the confines of a contradiction that passes as a policy. But that is not an exclusive challenge for those within the confines of what some choose to call the new economy. In a way, I guess that being true to myself outside of the confines of the written word is a somewhat impossible task. And it is unlikely that the ripple effects of such success would be contained within the confines of sport. Much as we realise the task by police to combat crime, that should done within the confines of the law. He is not, and never has been, caught up solely within the confines of Catholicism in terms of his music and his philosophy. Where some feel constricted by the confines of professionalism, others find comfort in its regimens. Positive word of mouth pushed the drug far beyond the confines of the rave scene. But it has not yet been able to break out of the confines of documents and seminar halls. There sole aim must not just be to entice as many clients as possible but to do business within the confines of the law. Well, you used to be able to anyway, I'm sure they are now operating totally within the confines of their licence. Inevitably the debate before me has ranged a little wider than the narrow confines of that question. The slave is forced by necessity to fight for his freedom within the confines of society. However, discussion usually drifted well away from the confines of these topics. Laura, stifled by the confines of her religion and her boyfriend, dreams of freedom and the ocean. There is nothing wrong for a guru and chela to learn and practise mysterious rituals within the confines of the law. My birding is restricted only by my own inability to escape from the confines of city life. Synonyms extent, range, breadth, width, reach, sweep, purview, span, stretch, spread, horizon Origin Late Middle English (as a noun): from French confins (plural noun), from Latin confinia, from confinis 'bordering', from con- 'together' + finis 'end, limit' (plural fines 'territory'). The verb senses are from French confiner, based on Latin confinis. Rhymes align, assign, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine Definition of confine in US English: confine verbkənˈfīnkənˈfaɪn [with object]confine someone/something to 1Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, quantity, or time) 限制；使局限 he does not confine his message to politics 他的观点并不仅局限于偏激的政治见解。 you've confined yourself to what you know 你只局限于你知道的事。 your boating will mostly be confined to a few hours at weekends 你通常只限于在周末划几个小时船。 Example sentencesExamples The great majority of women within fascist movements were confined to activities generally considered to be suited to their nature - essentially welfare work. He worked assiduously to confine the judges to their legal duties, and tried to limit their contacts with Versailles by forbidding them from sitting on the councils of the princes. If anything, increasingly independent boards of directors are overseeing the succession process and are less likely to confine their search to the best candidate within the company. For space reasons we have confined the study to British and Irish directors at the top nine publicly quoted companies. Consequently, some areas of town are isolated, and thus confine their residents to staying close to home. Early guideline efforts confined their scope to preconception counselling, pregnancy, and birth. Considering these will strengthen the proposal by grounding it in the dynamic of an ongoing reality; failure to do so will confine its discussion to the narrow scope of the academy. The furniture in this exhibition is not confined to gallery spaces, however. Space themes are not confined to futuristic fictional series on television, although these are by far the best known and the greatest revenue generators. The lack of high profile politicos was noted as the bride and groom confined the guest list to family and close friends. He doesn't allow partisanship to affect the main body of his work on international trade and monetary policy; he confines his misstatements to areas he doesn't know much about, like energy economics. In subsequent years, Givon would confine her efforts to the main gallery spaces in the Monument. In this sense, popular culture functions as a trap to confine the imagination to stereotypical images of Indian people. These days, most scholars confine their researches to a narrow stretch of time and space. In particular, it said, the terms were too restrictive in confining the examination to just three hospitals and to deceased children under 12 years who were born alive. I propose to confine my comments to matters of general policy within the Club. I must confine my writing to the inside, enclose it within a perimeter, which forms a circular line, an orbit around the text. Either this determination is not made, however, or it is confined to mutually antagonistic pockets of conviction within the church. It needs to be planted away from buildings and underground pipes because it develops rather fat roots which are known to lift paving and crack pools if it is confined to too small a space. Ministers who kept their mouths shut and confined their views to Cabinet meetings feel betrayed. Synonyms enclose, incarcerate, imprison, intern, impound, hold captive, trap restrict, limit 1.1confine someone to/in Restrain or forbid someone from leaving (a place) 禁止离开；关押，监禁；禁闭 the troops were confined to their barracks 军队被关在营房。 Example sentencesExamples At present, six million pregnant sows in the EU are confined in stalls, including many in the Republic of Ireland. Wet, cold soil can be a killer of the hardiest of plants, especially when they are confined in a pot. It was for this reason she was confined to her room until someone was sent to get her. Instead of yelling at me, he threw me over his shoulder, strode down the main deck, and tossed me in the room I was confined in before. Early in 1846 he was confined in an asylum in Paris. Until late December 1991 he was confined in various psychiatric hospitals. A highly infectious disease, it passes easily from sheep to sheep, particularly when they are confined in a small space, during housing, periods of supplementary feeding or even in handling yards. Their anatomy was half-human, half-animal, and they were confined in a low-ceilinged, windowless and oddly proportioned space. They confined her in a hotel room under a doctor's care, but after only two days of this, she began showing symptoms of high blood pressure, dehydration, and stress. There they were confined in an utterly alien climate, with a resulting death toll of some forty percent, until the winter of 1913-14. Under impeachment he was confined in the Tower from 1679 to 1684. A good teacher really does keep pointing the way upward and forward, and really does let the student grow without confining him in a cage. But I think it would be for the best that we wait until she is confined in a jail cell, it may be too hard to keep her under control in the open like this. The psychologist warned that it would be harmful to confine him in the punitive ‘management unit’ or among men in the Red 1 compound designed for ‘long-term behaviour management’. Most dramatically, the state can use the fact of a prior conviction as the basis for confining someone in a mental institution, even after he has completed his prison sentence. If each wall in this room were painted this color, you'd feel as if you were confined in a tight little box, albeit a box of a pretty color. The Church, however, forbade Galileo to teach the theory and eventually confined him to house arrest until his death in 1642. You are in detention in the sense of being detained and you may be detained even though you are not confined to a particular place. For six months she was confined in the Jewish ghetto, then she was transferred to Dachau, near Munich. If a man steals or kills somebody, according to newly found ‘blanket’ wisdom of ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ there is no need to punish the guilty and confine him to the jail or send him to the gallows. Synonyms send, deliver, hand over, give over, turn over, sentence 1.2be confined to (of a person) be unable to leave (one's bed, home, or a wheelchair) because of illness or disability. （人）（因疾病、残疾）无法离开（床，家，轮椅） he was confined to bed for four days with a bad dose of flu Example sentencesExamples He is confined to a wheelchair and he hopes his own story will help change the minds of politicians who are opposed to lifting bans on therapeutic cloning. She was confined to a wheelchair, could not recognise her parents and was given a year to live. It's just that she's confined to bed these days and she gets bored, so she makes things up. When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair. The youngster, who is confined to a wheelchair, is unable to breathe or swallow unaided and the only parts unaffected are her brain, heart, eyes and ears. Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits. The 40-year-old is confined to a wheelchair, but can't wait to try his dad's invention. Over a period of four months he became increasingly weak and was eventually confined to bed. When she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 17, the Failsworth mother-of-two was confined to a wheelchair. He will also meet and be shown around the ground floor flat of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair. He lost seven stone in weight and was eventually confined to bed, relying on a nebuliser to help him breathe. She had recently fallen and fractured her pelvis and was confined to a wheel chair. The boss has a daughter who is confined to a wheelchair by a psychosomatic illness. The patient, named only as Mrs H, was confined to a wheelchair and never left the home. His greatest disappointment was being confined to his bed by illness for two weeks of the campaign. Despite being confined to a wheelchair he enjoys going for a pint in his local pub and seeing his friends. But despite the need for twice-daily physiotherapy, constant dependency on antibiotics and in her final months being confined to a wheelchair, she stayed positive throughout. But being confined to a wheelchair has not deterred him from tireless fundraising to help makeover the school's sensory garden in memory of three pupils who died last year. He was hospitalised, endured numerous operations, was confined to a wheelchair for many months and kept out of school for a year. He was confined to a wheelchair and told that he would never walk again. 1.3be confineddated (of a woman) remain in bed for a period before, during, and after the birth of a child. 〈旧〉（妇女）卧床分娩；坐月子 she was confined for nearly a month 她坐月子将近一个月。 Example sentencesExamples The prisoner gave evidence on oath to the effect that she was confined before she expected to be, and was unconscious for two hours immediately after her delivery. nounˈkänfīnˈkɑnfaɪn confines 1The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement. （尤指某个地方限制行动自由的）界限；边界；范围 they were cramped within the confines of a little cabin Example sentencesExamples This sort of detail should never leave the confines of the hospital. In reality she couldn't think of a safe place within the confines of the building. This means finding a building within the confines of the town boundary but not too close to the centre of the town. Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband. Food, in the confines of jail, takes on a more basic and urgent quality than it does outside. Above that, a balcony, which stretched to the confines of the building, was also filled with books. Anything said or done within the confines of the European team room should, in my opinion, remain private. I protested, trying to make my way out of the confines of the restricting hospital sheets. Where the damage has been done is internally, within the confines of Northern Ireland. While in the open desert the tank is king, in the confines of city streets the guerrilla fighter comes into his own. These crumbs went onto the desk, the floor and a few remained within the confines of the wrapper. The buildings are to be located within the confines of the existing Waste Water Treatment Works. It seems that this caring does not extend outside the confines of our own country, our island, our citadel. It is only an hour or so from Rome's major airports, but once within the confines of the grounds it is unlikely that you will stray too far. As she breathed over me in the confines of the cubicle it was clear that she'd been drinking garlic coffee for most of the morning. For some, the fast-food joint is the only option if they want to escape the confines of a cramped house for a couple of hours. Have we not been burning our women within the confines of our homes, young women who have not brought enough dowry? Religion is a personal belief and a private matter and should be kept within the confines of our home. Yet his greatest rebuilding effort has been accomplished, not on the court, but within the confines of his own home. The director creatively allows the audience to look beyond the confines of the theatre space. Synonyms limits, outer limits, borders, boundaries, margins, extremities, edges, fringes, marches 1.1 The limits or restrictions of something abstract, especially a subject or sphere of activity. 〈喻〉（尤指学科或活动领域的）界限；范围 the narrow confines of political life 政治生活的狭小领域。 Example sentencesExamples But it has not yet been able to break out of the confines of documents and seminar halls. Where some feel constricted by the confines of professionalism, others find comfort in its regimens. There sole aim must not just be to entice as many clients as possible but to do business within the confines of the law. There is nothing wrong for a guru and chela to learn and practise mysterious rituals within the confines of the law. It could also be resentment at the confines of a syllabus and the restrictions that must be placed on students. Much as we realise the task by police to combat crime, that should done within the confines of the law. But that is not an exclusive challenge for those within the confines of what some choose to call the new economy. It is not exactly a call to revolution, but within the confines of the Catholic Church, it has seen him cast as a liberal reformist. This is a criminal trial and it will stay within the confines of the rules of evidence and procedure. Positive word of mouth pushed the drug far beyond the confines of the rave scene. He is not, and never has been, caught up solely within the confines of Catholicism in terms of his music and his philosophy. The slave is forced by necessity to fight for his freedom within the confines of society. And it is unlikely that the ripple effects of such success would be contained within the confines of sport. Inevitably the debate before me has ranged a little wider than the narrow confines of that question. In a way, I guess that being true to myself outside of the confines of the written word is a somewhat impossible task. It is difficult to always live within the confines of a contradiction that passes as a policy. However, discussion usually drifted well away from the confines of these topics. My birding is restricted only by my own inability to escape from the confines of city life. Laura, stifled by the confines of her religion and her boyfriend, dreams of freedom and the ocean. Well, you used to be able to anyway, I'm sure they are now operating totally within the confines of their licence. Synonyms extent, range, breadth, width, reach, sweep, purview, span, stretch, spread, horizon Origin Late Middle English (as a noun): from French confins (plural noun), from Latin confinia, from confinis ‘bordering’, from con- ‘together’ + finis ‘end, limit’ (plural fines ‘territory’). The verb senses are from French confiner, based on Latin confinis.
随便看	followership followerss follow in footsteps follow in footsteps following following following closely following in sequence followingly followings following someone closely following that following that/this following the crowd following the pattern of following this/that follow in sb's footsteps follow in sb's footsteps follow in sb's steps follow in somebody's footsteps follow in somebody's footsteps follow in somebody's steps follow in someone's footsteps follow in someone's footsteps follow in someone's footsteps