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con.fine objk5En5faInv [T]to limit (someone or something)限制，使局限I don't like a job in which I'm confined to doing only one thing.我不喜欢仅限于做一件事的工作。You are asked to confine your use of the telephone to business calls alone.你被要求将电话机的使用限制在业务往来上。Could you confine your discussion to the matter in question, please!请你们把讨论集中在正题上!By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease (=stop it from spreading).通过关闭受感染的畜牧场，我们希望限制疾病扩散。Something might be confined to a particular area or group of people if it appears only to exist there.仅存在于(某地区、某人群中)It is now known that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.现在已知这种病的存在不限于社会任何单个群体中。It's an attitude which seems to be confined to the upper classes.这种观点看来只存在于上层阶级中。If a person is confined, they are kept, often by force, in an enclosed place.关押，监禁He had been confined for so long that he couldn't cope with the outside world.他被关押了这么久以致对外面的世界一时适应不了。
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