Definition of limit in English:

limit

nounPlural limits ˈlɪmɪtˈlɪmɪt

1A point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass.
界限
the failure showed the limits of British power
这次失败表明了英国实力的局限。
the 10-minute limit on speeches
十分钟的讲演时限。
there was no limit to his imagination
他有无限的想象力。
Example sentencesExamples
- The request to move out comes because the power of the live missile with a warhead goes beyond the safety limits of the firing range and shrapnel could be blasted on to surrounding land.
- The hunting community exists beyond the limits of what these people consider acceptable behaviour.
- But in a highly-critical judgment he was told he had acted beyond the limits of his expertise and ‘abused his position as a doctor’.
- As such, each member has seized the opportunity to kick their performances up several notches, all playing beyond my perceived limits of their abilities.
- This book presents the final version of Chaitin's course on the limits of mathematical reasoning.
- While I'm perfectly fine with nudity and crassness, sometimes it felt as though shots were composed to test the limits of what could pass the censors.
- Well, I am hoping to convince you that they passed far beyond the normal limits of statutory construction, the changing of the meaning of.
- These issues are moving the limits of storage from its technological limit to its practical limit.
- Behind her, a woman - presumably her mother - was standing nearby trying to make sure her sari did not unwrap itself beyond the limits of Indian modesty.
- The awe in which he was held allowed him to extend his influence beyond the formal limits of his office.
- If one is beyond the limits of acceptable political discourse, then surely the other is, too.
- Power management software can orchestrate the graceful shutdown of critical systems when power outages extend beyond the limits of backup systems.
- It appears he may have stepped beyond the limits of what he might otherwise have done.
- It is no longer necessary to be content with a cheap gadget, simply because the branded one is priced beyond the limits of the family budget.
- He means that it will be played on the edge of, and beyond, the limits of legality.
- Astronomy had its first close encounter with physics in the era of Kepler and Newton, but the consequences of that conjunction extended only to the limits of the solar system.
- But they had spent to their limit on research and over their limit to complete the first stages of production.
- But developing nations will generally borrow up to - and beyond - the limits of their ability to make the interest payments.
- They arrived at a slow-moving river, somewhere beyond the limits of Ryan and Allie's family's property, but not near anyone else's.
- No concept can allow us to rise so far: yet the aesthetic experience, which involves a perpetual striving to pass beyond the limits of our point of view, seems to embody what cannot be thought.
1. 1.1often limits The terminal point or boundary of an area or movement.
  （地区或活动的）范围
  the city limits
  城市的范围。
  the upper limit of the tidal reaches
  海潮的最高点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The group slipped quickly down and back outside, following Don outside the city limits and into the forest.
  We must identify a plot of land outside the city limits.
  Start by finding a list of practices near where you live, as surgeries have boundary limits and you need to make sure you're within their area.
  There's little room to expand on the 100-acre Walter Reed campus in Washington, and city height limits forbid tall buildings.
  More important, in my opinion, are term limits in other areas of the government.
  One interesting note was that the official speed limit within city limits is 60 km nation wide, unless otherwise posted.
  Between 1503 and 1506 he was imprisoned for forging a document, branded on the face, and confined to the city limits.
  Taking a city tram from Basel as far as its terminus at the city limits, I followed the road on foot.
  The 82nd Airborne couldn't move from outside the city's limits without getting hammered.
  Figures showed that amounts of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide were predicted to exceed allowed annual limits in five areas of the city.
  Unfortunately, suburban sprawl in the area limits further extension of the quarry perimeter, and it is likely that this quarry may run out of stone to blast by 2015.
  Any excursion outside Brandon city limits was bound to reveal several new chunks smeared on the highway in neverending configurations of minced meat and bone.
  How can one feel like a citizen of a geographic area whose limits one can't place and whose capital cities one can't name?
  As a girl Ziana's grandfather had taken her camping outside of the city limits on several occasions.
  At the extreme tidal limits in wet areas, organic production may exceed sediment supply and peaty organic sediments may then accumulate.
  In the past, US strategy has placed explicit or implicit limits on the movement of American forces along these three axes.
  Four towers, originally built to demarcate the boundaries of Bangalore, are now very much inside city limits.
  The stolen pets change hands within a day or two and are sold to people outside the city limits, which make it very difficult for the owner to trace the stolen pet.
  Even more impressive is the car's overtaking performance once outside the city limits, where the boost from the turbocharger enables the car to whoosh past slower traffic in a very relaxed way.
  Justice Morin held that the City had the authority, pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Act, to designate any area within the City limits as an area where smoking is prohibited.
  Synonyms
  boundary, border, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, frontier, edge, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination
  perimeter, outside, outline, confine, periphery, margin, rim, extremity, fringe, threshold, compass
2. 1.2 The furthest extent of one's physical or mental endurance.
  （体力或脑力的）极限
  Mary Ann tried everyone's patience to the limit
  玛丽安让大家忍无可忍了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  With a gruelling fitness regime to get through, the pressure is on as the eight stretch their physical and mental endurance levels to the limit.
  It won't be the first time the keen sportsman has pushed the boundaries of human endurance to the limit in the name of charity.
  As an 18-year-old, they take you to the limit of your endurance.
  Overall you sense a band stretching each other to the limit, reaching out to invent a new format which would eventually become their downfall.
  The confidence based on the fact that I trained to the limit of my mental and physical capacity made me think so.
  Men and women crews train equally hard, and race to the limit of their physical capability - what's the difference?
  Candidates push themselves to the limit in a test that assess mental as well as physical toughness during a barrier test for army special forces entry.
  It was a while before the children realized that these two marines, laden with arms to the limit of physical endurance, were not going to hurt them.
  Contrary to the impression created by the end result, however, the intricate machinery and the mental processes were stressed to the limit as Schumacher won nine of the 10 races held so far.
  The next four hours were pushing her mental skills to the limit.
  It is all about recognising your physical and mental limits and training within them until you are ready to go a little beyond them.
  Motivation controls voluntary behavior up to the limit of physical capacity.
  That means stretching your mind and emotions and endurance to the limit and therefore getting stronger and stronger day by day.
  To a mountaineer it is the challenge of pushing physical resources to the limit by striving to achieve a demanding goal.
  Each heat will pit the entrants against each other in series of specially designed, sporting competitions which will push them to their physical and mental limits.
  I have suffered to the limit of my endurance, but I will never in my sane senses surrender to the evil power that has fixed its roots like a cancer on the world.
  It could take them six weeks to complete, will see them race over almost 4000 nautical miles and push their mental and physical abilities to the limit.
  We have had two hard days on the water and I have come nearly to the limit of my endurance.
  They may not be illegal, but he's always pushing that ethical edge to the limit.
  The CD pushes the listener to the limit of endurance, virtually begs you dismiss it as a depressing case of style over substance, then suddenly reveals hidden depths.
  Synonyms
  utmost, breaking point, extremity, greatest extent, ultimate, end point, the bitter end
  the last straw, the straw that broke the camel's back, enough, more than enough
  informal the end, it
2A restriction on the size or amount of something permissible or possible.
限制
an age limit
年龄限制。
a weight limit
体重限制。
Example sentencesExamples
- St-Maurice also says that setting limits for the amount of drugs found in someone's system is a political, and contradictory, issue.
- They have unilaterally removed class size limits at colleges.
- Providing there are age limits and other rules, but I see no reason why locals should be denied the opportunity to have a little fun.
- The task of the Charter was to give this concept as clear limits as possible.
- Reformists say the amount of public funding limits for the conventions and the campaigns need to be raised so candidates won't have to turn to private interest money.
- A system of private property governed by a rule of law sets limits on the permissible form of competition for resources.
- The suspended particulate matter is above permissible limits.
- Just how far can science push the possible limits?
- You have a company pension that was set up under the current regime, which is a cat's cradle of limits, restrictions, and extremely complicated rules.
- You can digitise almost all of your music collection (within certain limits due to copyright restrictions).
- Mr Cullen said the size limits were being reviewed to ensure effective competition and to take account of ongoing developments in the retail sector.
- Two more conventional measures, species-specific size restrictions and catch limits, appear in only a small number of fishing accords.
- Under the scheme, local authorities are set limits on the amount of biodegradable waste - like paper and garden refuse - they can dump in landfill sites.
- NSW Fisheries set strict bag limits and sizes and they are continually being reviewed to ensure fish stocks are preserved for the future.
- ‘We have not put any restrictions on the age limit,’ says V.K. Jayan, of Terracrafts, who leads the workshop.
- The dog is small enough to meet the size requirements of leases that put limits on the size of pets.
- Restrictions enacted under previous state legislation impose limits on the amount districts can increase their budgets.
- Since permissible limits in India are as high as to accommodate these pollutants, they cannot be booked under pollution control rules.
- The Food Standards Agency has already set limits on the amount of salt people should eat, with a high-profile campaign urging them to consume less than 6 grams a day.
- Government mandated limits on the amount of the chemicals that can be fed to the fish.
Synonyms
maximum, ceiling, limitation, upper limit
restriction, curb, check, control, curtailment, restraint
damper, brake, rein
1. 2.1 A speed limit.
  速度限制
  a 30 mph limit
  限速每小时30英里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mr Faughnan said the main problem was that many speed limits were set too low, particularly 30 mph limits.
  Apparently one of those camera things snapped me breaking the limit in a thirty mph zone.
  Mr Brown's car had been videoed travelling at 42 mph in a 30 limit and he had gone to the police office to view the video.
  Although some cameras do operate outside schools, a vast majority of them are placed on busy roads with 30 or 40 mph limits, often not even in a built up area.
  At one stage we hit 90 mph in a thirty-mile limit.
  Speed limit signs, warning drivers that the limit is 30 mph, have also been erected.
  I've been told by Bangkok officials that the maximum speed limit within city limits is 60 KPH nationally.
  It's a tricky stretch, because it's two lanes all the way, so people assume the limit is 40 mph, but it's not.
  If someone cannot drive according to the limits, conditions and traffic flow then they shouldn't be out driving at all.
  Another story to achieve widespread circulation is the one of the motorist caught exceeding the limit by a speed camera in Cheshire.
  After our country's previous success with speed limit reductions to 55 mph, a lower limit should be even more attractive to the public.
  One motorist was caught travelling at more than twice the limit in a 30 mph zone.
  He added that we could run at track speed but that if the train were to exceed 30 cars the limit would be 60 mph.
  Legislation is now in place to collect fines at one mph over the limit - yet in law there has always been a 10% allowance for wear and tear of the speedometer.
  The remaining 16 reported regularly travelling up to 10 km/h above the limit.
  The old man in a white Cadillac was driving down the road ten mph under the limit with his left turn signal on while on a cell phone!
  Speed limits on high-speed roads, and the actual extreme percentile speeds, have generally decreased.
  Like it or lump it the present system is going to have to do - same limits, speed cameras, high fines.
  If the cameras are too close together it will create a bottleneck as people drive within the limit.
  In practice the police do exercise some discretion when confronting a motorist driving a few mph over the limit.
2. 2.2also legal limit The maximum concentration of alcohol in the blood that the law allows in the driver of a motor vehicle.
  （法律允许的机动车驾驶员血液的）最高酒精浓度
  the risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit
  不慎超限量饮酒的危险。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Bulgaria the blood alcohol limit for motorists is 0.05, that is, 50 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood.
  As written, the story seems to contend that lowering of the blood alcohol limit is largely the result of the federal government offering more highway money as an incentive.
  Australian drink-drive levels are also lower, with blood concentration limit of 0.05 per cent compared with 0.08 per cent in Britain.
  It is expected to make speeding punishments more flexible, with drivers caught marginally over the limit getting two penalty points and those way over, six.
  Campaigners also warned party-goers that taking to the roads the morning after could be just as dangerous, with blood alcohol levels over the limit.
  It tells of a study conducted in Britain where it was found that using a cellphone was more of an impairment to driving than being over the legal 0,08 percent blood alcohol limit.
  He was arrested and breathalysed and found by blood analysis to be slightly over the limit, with a reading of 85.
  into whether the current blood alcohol limit for driving should be lowered from 80 mg per 100 ml to 50 mg.
  The survey also found that a lot of people thought the alcohol limit for drivers would be higher than at home.
  His blood alcohol level was nearly two and a half times over the limit when the blood test was taken at approximately 6.20 am.
  The legal limit for pilots and cabin crew is 20 milligrams of alcohol per hundred millilitres of blood, while the limit for driving is 80 milligrams of alcohol.
  Despite ever-growing public abhorrence of this most antisocial crime, numbers of drivers caught over the limit are rising.
  The current prescribed Blood Alcohol Concentration limit in China is 0.03.
  For a driver with twice the legal limit of alcohol in the blood they are more than 30 times more likely to have an accident than one who has not been drinking.
  I sincerely hope the British Medical Association is successful in its campaign to drive down the legal alcohol limit for drivers.
  The other driver had been 2 times over the legal alcohol limit and had run the red light at 75 miles per hour and totaled both cars.
  As a result, it has asked the Government to consider developing legislation which would set a blood alcohol limit for people on watch duty on board vessels.
  Why would it not include someone who has a blood alcohol content above the limit for driving a motor vehicle?
  Three hours later, a blood sample showed he was twice the legal limit for alcohol.
  Tests showed that he had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
3Mathematics
A point or value which a sequence, function, or sum of a series can be made to approach progressively, until they are as close to it as desired.
〔数〕极限
Example sentencesExamples
- Around this time he discovered conditions under which a function is a limit of a sequence of continuous functions.
- In fact, the sequence converges to a limit whose value is 2.7182818.
- We begin in section 2 with two simple examples to show that the pointwise limit of a sequence of analytic functions need not be analytic.
- As the students themselves have observed, repeated magnification of a graph can not conclusively show the value of a limit.
- So again, we would want the limit of this sequence to be 1 / 0.

verblimits, limited, limiting ˈlɪmɪtˈlɪmɪt

[with object]

Set or serve as a limit to.
限制
try to limit the amount you drink
限制你的饮酒量。
class sizes are limited to a maximum of 10
班级人数最多限定10人。
Example sentencesExamples
- This year it has gone further, limiting the amount of time they can spend covering for absent colleagues.
- We are now using the engine as a tool for maximising performance, not limiting it.
- This proposal would reduce the cost of insurance by limiting the amount that has to be paid out.
- Another major factor limiting the Europeans' performances has to be the heat and humidity.
- Phillips has been released on bail with restrictions limiting his access to computers.
- This is a rate limiting step, as a simultaneous start was needed across all 20 sites.
- Avoid high demands for air during the dive by limiting your depth and work-rate.
- Fishing effort could also be controlled by licensing boats and limiting their catches.
- If you stop consumers spending by limiting their credit then recession is inevitable.
- This may be due to effective treatments or the self limiting nature of the illnesses.
- Heat stress is a major factor limiting growth of cool-season plant species in many areas.
- Water availability is a major factor limiting the occurrence, abundance and growth of trees.
- This is limiting my choices and is a very shallow approach to relationships.
- New government regulations limiting the sort of DIY work that amateurs can carry out.
- It is aimed at limiting the damage done to the government electorally with a tiny pension rise this year.
- By limiting the number of children, they intended to give them better opportunities.
- Damage can help the designer by limiting the amount of force that the structure attracts.
- It can be limited to serve only as a convenient portable reading device.
- He asks whether there are any regulations limiting the number of teaching hours a teacher is required to do.
- Even where nutrients are scarce, this may not be of much importance if the prime limiting factor is water.
Synonyms
restrict, curb, check, place a limit on, cap, keep within bounds, hold in check, restrain, put a brake on, hold, freeze, peg
regulate, control, govern, delimit, demarcate, circumscribe, ration
arrest, bridle, inhibit, damp (down), fetter, tie down
rare trammel

Phrases

be the limit

informal Be intolerably troublesome or irritating.
〈非正式〉十分讨厌的，令人极度气恼的
you are the limit—you're suspicious of everything!
Example sentencesExamples
- Generally I don't have much fear of clambering over things and taking risks but this was the limit.

off limits

1Out of bounds.
禁止入内
the site was off limits to the public
Example sentencesExamples
- Scientists are on the scene, but the mountain is off limits to hikers and climbers.
- Anything to the right of yellow is strictly off limits.
- After the war, Midway remained one of America's military linchpins, and was kept firmly off limits to visitors.
- Authorities made the area off limits to fishing, leaving hundreds out of work.
- Perhaps we should have dug deeper because it's quite apparent now that the whole topic was off limits.
- In our puritanical world, where marriages were arranged, romance was off limits.
- Now I have made the point more than once that this column is strictly off limits for political partisanship.
- Places that are off limits are especially interesting and should be explored thoroughly.
- You have to stand up and declare yourself off limits to emotional terrorism.
- Up to recently these waters were off limits to Western travelers.
1. 1.1Not to be mentioned or discussed.
  it was apparent that the whole topic was off limits
  Example sentencesExamples
  You have the right to free speech in this country with certain areas being off limits.
  His private life was off limits during the interview.
  The steady shift to the right in official political circles and in the corporate-controlled media puts the most fundamental issues off limits in any encounter between president and press.
  Methodology in turn falls under the gaze of epistemology, the investigation of investigation itself - nothing is off limits to scientific questioning.
  A lot of Americans realize that serious security thinking at the university level requires a free-for-all in which you can't put some subjects off limits for debate.
  You may remember that he did a Today interview with John Humphreys in which Iraq was off limits.
  At no time has Latham stated categorically that the topic of tax-cuts are off limits.
  I honestly don't know why this argument is off limits.
  Discussion of the Civil War seemed to be off limits.
  He finally agrees on the condition that discussion of the manager's future is off limits.
  Synonyms
  taboo, censored, forbidden, banned, interdicted, proscribed, prohibited, not to be spoken of, ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable, unprintable, indescribable, out of bounds, beyond the pale, off limits, that dare not speak its name, disapproved of, frowned on

within limits

Moderately; up to a point.
适度地，在某范围内
airlines used to be able, within limits, to land or take off more or less when they pleased
Example sentencesExamples
- My first boss, Roger, reckoned that the key to world progress and prosperity lay in an informed and, within limits, tolerant appreciation of cultural differences.
- I was also allowed, within limits, to photograph some of the items, careful not to disturb the integrity of the still unprotected diaries, photos and notebooks.
- What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable.
- The reason farming needs protection is also the reason we can, within limits, have the sort of farming we want: our post-agricultural economy makes us rich enough to afford it.
- Most of the adults on these campuses agree that human beings are sinners, prone to make mistakes, and, within limits, it's the job of the college to help set them on the right course, rather than simply kick them out.
- This is the game that teachers train their students to play: think without limits, practice within limits.
- So a textualist could, in principle and within limits, allow both a politically liberal and a politically conservative reading of the Constitution's text.
- Because this year at least one music company will be releasing CDs that positively invite copying - within limits.
- This is about allowing people their personal choice, within limits.
- Further, he was prepared to acknowledge and within limits even to tolerate the fact that the influence of Marxism itself had been thoroughly undermined, especially among the young.
Synonyms
comparatively, in comparison, by comparison, proportionately

without limit

With no restriction.
the potential energy does not increase without limit
Example sentencesExamples
- As a poet, his technical resources seem to have been without limit.
- That belief is one reason why he has so often and conspicuously argued to have boatloads of illegal aliens accepted without limit.
- They can divide without limit, which is what makes them so deadly.
- He said it's just a matter of time before nation-states accept the reality that they can't use their authority without limit and trample on human rights.
- Lastly, it settles for a method which is an extension of Islamic metaphysics by stating that ‘knowledge is limitless because the objects of knowledge are without limit.’
- He was ordered to be detained without limit later that year after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
- She can, like England, use without limit the immense industry of United States.
- I think we're meeting all conceivable moral obligations to the elderly, and I don't see any reason to suppose those obligations increase without limit just because we earn more money.
- In seventeen cases the disposal was as it would have been prior to the passage of the 1991 Act, a restriction order without limit of time.
- Better yet, the possibilities for an infiltrator in the development team who build the system would be literally without limit.
Synonyms
boundless, unbounded, unlimited, without limit, illimitable

Derivatives

limitable

adjective

limitative

adjective ˈlɪmɪtətɪvˈlɪməˌteɪdɪv

Turing and Godel, and the complexity theorists who have followed, have made fundamental limitative theorems a fact of mathematical life.
Example sentencesExamples
- They suggest that redundancy is not merely a ‘limitative condition’, but is key to the transmission of the message itself.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin limes, limit- 'boundary, frontier'. The verb is from Latin limitare, from limes.

Definition of limit in US English:

limit

nounˈlimitˈlɪmɪt

1A point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass.
界限
the limits of presidential power
the 10-minute limit on speeches
十分钟的讲演时限。
there was no limit to his imagination
他有无限的想象力。
Example sentencesExamples
- The hunting community exists beyond the limits of what these people consider acceptable behaviour.
- Well, I am hoping to convince you that they passed far beyond the normal limits of statutory construction, the changing of the meaning of.
- The awe in which he was held allowed him to extend his influence beyond the formal limits of his office.
- These issues are moving the limits of storage from its technological limit to its practical limit.
- It appears he may have stepped beyond the limits of what he might otherwise have done.
- Power management software can orchestrate the graceful shutdown of critical systems when power outages extend beyond the limits of backup systems.
- But in a highly-critical judgment he was told he had acted beyond the limits of his expertise and ‘abused his position as a doctor’.
- The request to move out comes because the power of the live missile with a warhead goes beyond the safety limits of the firing range and shrapnel could be blasted on to surrounding land.
- As such, each member has seized the opportunity to kick their performances up several notches, all playing beyond my perceived limits of their abilities.
- Behind her, a woman - presumably her mother - was standing nearby trying to make sure her sari did not unwrap itself beyond the limits of Indian modesty.
- But developing nations will generally borrow up to - and beyond - the limits of their ability to make the interest payments.
- They arrived at a slow-moving river, somewhere beyond the limits of Ryan and Allie's family's property, but not near anyone else's.
- While I'm perfectly fine with nudity and crassness, sometimes it felt as though shots were composed to test the limits of what could pass the censors.
- If one is beyond the limits of acceptable political discourse, then surely the other is, too.
- He means that it will be played on the edge of, and beyond, the limits of legality.
- No concept can allow us to rise so far: yet the aesthetic experience, which involves a perpetual striving to pass beyond the limits of our point of view, seems to embody what cannot be thought.
- But they had spent to their limit on research and over their limit to complete the first stages of production.
- It is no longer necessary to be content with a cheap gadget, simply because the branded one is priced beyond the limits of the family budget.
- This book presents the final version of Chaitin's course on the limits of mathematical reasoning.
- Astronomy had its first close encounter with physics in the era of Kepler and Newton, but the consequences of that conjunction extended only to the limits of the solar system.
1. 1.1often limits The terminal point or boundary of an area or movement.
  （地区或活动的）范围
  the city limits
  城市的范围。
  the upper limit of the tidal reaches
  海潮的最高点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Between 1503 and 1506 he was imprisoned for forging a document, branded on the face, and confined to the city limits.
  Taking a city tram from Basel as far as its terminus at the city limits, I followed the road on foot.
  There's little room to expand on the 100-acre Walter Reed campus in Washington, and city height limits forbid tall buildings.
  We must identify a plot of land outside the city limits.
  One interesting note was that the official speed limit within city limits is 60 km nation wide, unless otherwise posted.
  At the extreme tidal limits in wet areas, organic production may exceed sediment supply and peaty organic sediments may then accumulate.
  The group slipped quickly down and back outside, following Don outside the city limits and into the forest.
  Figures showed that amounts of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide were predicted to exceed allowed annual limits in five areas of the city.
  More important, in my opinion, are term limits in other areas of the government.
  As a girl Ziana's grandfather had taken her camping outside of the city limits on several occasions.
  The 82nd Airborne couldn't move from outside the city's limits without getting hammered.
  Any excursion outside Brandon city limits was bound to reveal several new chunks smeared on the highway in neverending configurations of minced meat and bone.
  Unfortunately, suburban sprawl in the area limits further extension of the quarry perimeter, and it is likely that this quarry may run out of stone to blast by 2015.
  How can one feel like a citizen of a geographic area whose limits one can't place and whose capital cities one can't name?
  Justice Morin held that the City had the authority, pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Act, to designate any area within the City limits as an area where smoking is prohibited.
  The stolen pets change hands within a day or two and are sold to people outside the city limits, which make it very difficult for the owner to trace the stolen pet.
  In the past, US strategy has placed explicit or implicit limits on the movement of American forces along these three axes.
  Start by finding a list of practices near where you live, as surgeries have boundary limits and you need to make sure you're within their area.
  Even more impressive is the car's overtaking performance once outside the city limits, where the boost from the turbocharger enables the car to whoosh past slower traffic in a very relaxed way.
  Four towers, originally built to demarcate the boundaries of Bangalore, are now very much inside city limits.
  Synonyms
  boundary, border, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, frontier, edge, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination
2. 1.2 The furthest extent of one's physical or mental endurance.
  （体力或脑力的）极限
  Mary Ann tried everyone's patience to the limit
  玛丽安让大家忍无可忍了。
  other horses were reaching their limit
  其他的马体力消耗都快要到极限了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It could take them six weeks to complete, will see them race over almost 4000 nautical miles and push their mental and physical abilities to the limit.
  As an 18-year-old, they take you to the limit of your endurance.
  I have suffered to the limit of my endurance, but I will never in my sane senses surrender to the evil power that has fixed its roots like a cancer on the world.
  Candidates push themselves to the limit in a test that assess mental as well as physical toughness during a barrier test for army special forces entry.
  They may not be illegal, but he's always pushing that ethical edge to the limit.
  Motivation controls voluntary behavior up to the limit of physical capacity.
  The next four hours were pushing her mental skills to the limit.
  It was a while before the children realized that these two marines, laden with arms to the limit of physical endurance, were not going to hurt them.
  The confidence based on the fact that I trained to the limit of my mental and physical capacity made me think so.
  It is all about recognising your physical and mental limits and training within them until you are ready to go a little beyond them.
  The CD pushes the listener to the limit of endurance, virtually begs you dismiss it as a depressing case of style over substance, then suddenly reveals hidden depths.
  To a mountaineer it is the challenge of pushing physical resources to the limit by striving to achieve a demanding goal.
  With a gruelling fitness regime to get through, the pressure is on as the eight stretch their physical and mental endurance levels to the limit.
  Overall you sense a band stretching each other to the limit, reaching out to invent a new format which would eventually become their downfall.
  Contrary to the impression created by the end result, however, the intricate machinery and the mental processes were stressed to the limit as Schumacher won nine of the 10 races held so far.
  It won't be the first time the keen sportsman has pushed the boundaries of human endurance to the limit in the name of charity.
  Men and women crews train equally hard, and race to the limit of their physical capability - what's the difference?
  Each heat will pit the entrants against each other in series of specially designed, sporting competitions which will push them to their physical and mental limits.
  We have had two hard days on the water and I have come nearly to the limit of my endurance.
  That means stretching your mind and emotions and endurance to the limit and therefore getting stronger and stronger day by day.
  Synonyms
  utmost, breaking point, extremity, greatest extent, ultimate, end point, the bitter end
  the last straw, the straw that broke the camel's back, enough, more than enough
2A restriction on the size or amount of something permissible or possible.
限制
an age limit
年龄限制。
a weight limit
体重限制。
Example sentencesExamples
- You can digitise almost all of your music collection (within certain limits due to copyright restrictions).
- The task of the Charter was to give this concept as clear limits as possible.
- They have unilaterally removed class size limits at colleges.
- ‘We have not put any restrictions on the age limit,’ says V.K. Jayan, of Terracrafts, who leads the workshop.
- Two more conventional measures, species-specific size restrictions and catch limits, appear in only a small number of fishing accords.
- Reformists say the amount of public funding limits for the conventions and the campaigns need to be raised so candidates won't have to turn to private interest money.
- The dog is small enough to meet the size requirements of leases that put limits on the size of pets.
- You have a company pension that was set up under the current regime, which is a cat's cradle of limits, restrictions, and extremely complicated rules.
- The Food Standards Agency has already set limits on the amount of salt people should eat, with a high-profile campaign urging them to consume less than 6 grams a day.
- Under the scheme, local authorities are set limits on the amount of biodegradable waste - like paper and garden refuse - they can dump in landfill sites.
- St-Maurice also says that setting limits for the amount of drugs found in someone's system is a political, and contradictory, issue.
- NSW Fisheries set strict bag limits and sizes and they are continually being reviewed to ensure fish stocks are preserved for the future.
- Government mandated limits on the amount of the chemicals that can be fed to the fish.
- Just how far can science push the possible limits?
- Mr Cullen said the size limits were being reviewed to ensure effective competition and to take account of ongoing developments in the retail sector.
- Providing there are age limits and other rules, but I see no reason why locals should be denied the opportunity to have a little fun.
- A system of private property governed by a rule of law sets limits on the permissible form of competition for resources.
- Restrictions enacted under previous state legislation impose limits on the amount districts can increase their budgets.
- Since permissible limits in India are as high as to accommodate these pollutants, they cannot be booked under pollution control rules.
- The suspended particulate matter is above permissible limits.
Synonyms
maximum, ceiling, limitation, upper limit
1. 2.1 A speed limit.
  速度限制
  a 30 mph limit
  限速每小时30英里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like it or lump it the present system is going to have to do - same limits, speed cameras, high fines.
  In practice the police do exercise some discretion when confronting a motorist driving a few mph over the limit.
  Mr Faughnan said the main problem was that many speed limits were set too low, particularly 30 mph limits.
  The old man in a white Cadillac was driving down the road ten mph under the limit with his left turn signal on while on a cell phone!
  If someone cannot drive according to the limits, conditions and traffic flow then they shouldn't be out driving at all.
  After our country's previous success with speed limit reductions to 55 mph, a lower limit should be even more attractive to the public.
  I've been told by Bangkok officials that the maximum speed limit within city limits is 60 KPH nationally.
  Speed limits on high-speed roads, and the actual extreme percentile speeds, have generally decreased.
  It's a tricky stretch, because it's two lanes all the way, so people assume the limit is 40 mph, but it's not.
  Speed limit signs, warning drivers that the limit is 30 mph, have also been erected.
  The remaining 16 reported regularly travelling up to 10 km/h above the limit.
  Another story to achieve widespread circulation is the one of the motorist caught exceeding the limit by a speed camera in Cheshire.
  He added that we could run at track speed but that if the train were to exceed 30 cars the limit would be 60 mph.
  Mr Brown's car had been videoed travelling at 42 mph in a 30 limit and he had gone to the police office to view the video.
  At one stage we hit 90 mph in a thirty-mile limit.
  If the cameras are too close together it will create a bottleneck as people drive within the limit.
  One motorist was caught travelling at more than twice the limit in a 30 mph zone.
  Apparently one of those camera things snapped me breaking the limit in a thirty mph zone.
  Although some cameras do operate outside schools, a vast majority of them are placed on busy roads with 30 or 40 mph limits, often not even in a built up area.
  Legislation is now in place to collect fines at one mph over the limit - yet in law there has always been a 10% allowance for wear and tear of the speedometer.
2. 2.2 (in card games) an agreed maximum stake or bet.
3. 2.3also legal limit The maximum concentration of alcohol in the blood that the law allows in the driver of a motor vehicle.
  （法律允许的机动车驾驶员血液的）最高酒精浓度
  the risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit
  不慎超限量饮酒的危险。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Bulgaria the blood alcohol limit for motorists is 0.05, that is, 50 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood.
  It tells of a study conducted in Britain where it was found that using a cellphone was more of an impairment to driving than being over the legal 0,08 percent blood alcohol limit.
  Australian drink-drive levels are also lower, with blood concentration limit of 0.05 per cent compared with 0.08 per cent in Britain.
  For a driver with twice the legal limit of alcohol in the blood they are more than 30 times more likely to have an accident than one who has not been drinking.
  Campaigners also warned party-goers that taking to the roads the morning after could be just as dangerous, with blood alcohol levels over the limit.
  The other driver had been 2 times over the legal alcohol limit and had run the red light at 75 miles per hour and totaled both cars.
  The legal limit for pilots and cabin crew is 20 milligrams of alcohol per hundred millilitres of blood, while the limit for driving is 80 milligrams of alcohol.
  The survey also found that a lot of people thought the alcohol limit for drivers would be higher than at home.
  Three hours later, a blood sample showed he was twice the legal limit for alcohol.
  into whether the current blood alcohol limit for driving should be lowered from 80 mg per 100 ml to 50 mg.
  As a result, it has asked the Government to consider developing legislation which would set a blood alcohol limit for people on watch duty on board vessels.
  The current prescribed Blood Alcohol Concentration limit in China is 0.03.
  I sincerely hope the British Medical Association is successful in its campaign to drive down the legal alcohol limit for drivers.
  Despite ever-growing public abhorrence of this most antisocial crime, numbers of drivers caught over the limit are rising.
  Tests showed that he had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
  Why would it not include someone who has a blood alcohol content above the limit for driving a motor vehicle?
  As written, the story seems to contend that lowering of the blood alcohol limit is largely the result of the federal government offering more highway money as an incentive.
  His blood alcohol level was nearly two and a half times over the limit when the blood test was taken at approximately 6.20 am.
  It is expected to make speeding punishments more flexible, with drivers caught marginally over the limit getting two penalty points and those way over, six.
  He was arrested and breathalysed and found by blood analysis to be slightly over the limit, with a reading of 85.
3Mathematics
A point or value that a sequence, function, or sum of a series can be made to approach progressively, until it is as close to the point or value as desired.
〔数〕极限
Example sentencesExamples
- We begin in section 2 with two simple examples to show that the pointwise limit of a sequence of analytic functions need not be analytic.
- In fact, the sequence converges to a limit whose value is 2.7182818.
- Around this time he discovered conditions under which a function is a limit of a sequence of continuous functions.
- So again, we would want the limit of this sequence to be 1 / 0.
- As the students themselves have observed, repeated magnification of a graph can not conclusively show the value of a limit.

verbˈlimitˈlɪmɪt

[with object]

Set or serve as a limit to.
限制
try to limit the amount you drink
限制你的饮酒量。
class sizes are limited to a maximum of 10
班级人数最多限定10人。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even where nutrients are scarce, this may not be of much importance if the prime limiting factor is water.
- He asks whether there are any regulations limiting the number of teaching hours a teacher is required to do.
- New government regulations limiting the sort of DIY work that amateurs can carry out.
- Heat stress is a major factor limiting growth of cool-season plant species in many areas.
- Damage can help the designer by limiting the amount of force that the structure attracts.
- We are now using the engine as a tool for maximising performance, not limiting it.
- This is a rate limiting step, as a simultaneous start was needed across all 20 sites.
- If you stop consumers spending by limiting their credit then recession is inevitable.
- This year it has gone further, limiting the amount of time they can spend covering for absent colleagues.
- This proposal would reduce the cost of insurance by limiting the amount that has to be paid out.
- It can be limited to serve only as a convenient portable reading device.
- This is limiting my choices and is a very shallow approach to relationships.
- This may be due to effective treatments or the self limiting nature of the illnesses.
- Fishing effort could also be controlled by licensing boats and limiting their catches.
- Avoid high demands for air during the dive by limiting your depth and work-rate.
- Another major factor limiting the Europeans' performances has to be the heat and humidity.
- By limiting the number of children, they intended to give them better opportunities.
- Water availability is a major factor limiting the occurrence, abundance and growth of trees.
- Phillips has been released on bail with restrictions limiting his access to computers.
- It is aimed at limiting the damage done to the government electorally with a tiny pension rise this year.
Synonyms
restrict, curb, check, place a limit on, cap, keep within bounds, hold in check, restrain, put a brake on, hold, freeze, peg

Phrases

be the limit

informal Be intolerably troublesome or irritating.
〈非正式〉十分讨厌的，令人极度气恼的
Example sentencesExamples
- Generally I don't have much fear of clambering over things and taking risks but this was the limit.

off limits

1Out of bounds.
禁止入内
they declared the site off limits
他们宣布该地禁止入内。
Example sentencesExamples
- Up to recently these waters were off limits to Western travelers.
- Authorities made the area off limits to fishing, leaving hundreds out of work.
- Places that are off limits are especially interesting and should be explored thoroughly.
- Anything to the right of yellow is strictly off limits.
- Perhaps we should have dug deeper because it's quite apparent now that the whole topic was off limits.
- You have to stand up and declare yourself off limits to emotional terrorism.
- Now I have made the point more than once that this column is strictly off limits for political partisanship.
- Scientists are on the scene, but the mountain is off limits to hikers and climbers.
- After the war, Midway remained one of America's military linchpins, and was kept firmly off limits to visitors.
- In our puritanical world, where marriages were arranged, romance was off limits.
1. 1.1Not to be mentioned or discussed.
  it was apparent that the whole topic was off limits
  Example sentencesExamples
  I honestly don't know why this argument is off limits.
  At no time has Latham stated categorically that the topic of tax-cuts are off limits.
  A lot of Americans realize that serious security thinking at the university level requires a free-for-all in which you can't put some subjects off limits for debate.
  Discussion of the Civil War seemed to be off limits.
  He finally agrees on the condition that discussion of the manager's future is off limits.
  The steady shift to the right in official political circles and in the corporate-controlled media puts the most fundamental issues off limits in any encounter between president and press.
  His private life was off limits during the interview.
  You may remember that he did a Today interview with John Humphreys in which Iraq was off limits.
  Methodology in turn falls under the gaze of epistemology, the investigation of investigation itself - nothing is off limits to scientific questioning.
  You have the right to free speech in this country with certain areas being off limits.
  Synonyms
  taboo, censored, forbidden, banned, interdicted, proscribed, prohibited, not to be spoken of, ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable, unprintable, indescribable, out of bounds, beyond the pale, off limits, that dare not speak its name, disapproved of, frowned on

within limits

Moderately; up to a point.
适度地，在某范围内
Example sentencesExamples
- The reason farming needs protection is also the reason we can, within limits, have the sort of farming we want: our post-agricultural economy makes us rich enough to afford it.
- My first boss, Roger, reckoned that the key to world progress and prosperity lay in an informed and, within limits, tolerant appreciation of cultural differences.
- What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable.
- Most of the adults on these campuses agree that human beings are sinners, prone to make mistakes, and, within limits, it's the job of the college to help set them on the right course, rather than simply kick them out.
- Because this year at least one music company will be releasing CDs that positively invite copying - within limits.
- I was also allowed, within limits, to photograph some of the items, careful not to disturb the integrity of the still unprotected diaries, photos and notebooks.
- So a textualist could, in principle and within limits, allow both a politically liberal and a politically conservative reading of the Constitution's text.
- Further, he was prepared to acknowledge and within limits even to tolerate the fact that the influence of Marxism itself had been thoroughly undermined, especially among the young.
- This is about allowing people their personal choice, within limits.
- This is the game that teachers train their students to play: think without limits, practice within limits.
Synonyms
comparatively, in comparison, by comparison, proportionately

without limit

With no restriction.
Example sentencesExamples
- They can divide without limit, which is what makes them so deadly.
- I think we're meeting all conceivable moral obligations to the elderly, and I don't see any reason to suppose those obligations increase without limit just because we earn more money.
- Better yet, the possibilities for an infiltrator in the development team who build the system would be literally without limit.
- That belief is one reason why he has so often and conspicuously argued to have boatloads of illegal aliens accepted without limit.
- She can, like England, use without limit the immense industry of United States.
- In seventeen cases the disposal was as it would have been prior to the passage of the 1991 Act, a restriction order without limit of time.
- He was ordered to be detained without limit later that year after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
- He said it's just a matter of time before nation-states accept the reality that they can't use their authority without limit and trample on human rights.
- As a poet, his technical resources seem to have been without limit.
- Lastly, it settles for a method which is an extension of Islamic metaphysics by stating that ‘knowledge is limitless because the objects of knowledge are without limit.’
Synonyms
boundless, unbounded, unlimited, without limit, illimitable

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin limes, limit- ‘boundary, frontier’. The verb is from Latin limitare, from limes.

词汇	limit
释义	Definition of limit in English: limit nounPlural limits ˈlɪmɪtˈlɪmɪt 1A point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass. 界限 the failure showed the limits of British power 这次失败表明了英国实力的局限。 the 10-minute limit on speeches 十分钟的讲演时限。 there was no limit to his imagination 他有无限的想象力。 Example sentencesExamples The request to move out comes because the power of the live missile with a warhead goes beyond the safety limits of the firing range and shrapnel could be blasted on to surrounding land. The hunting community exists beyond the limits of what these people consider acceptable behaviour. But in a highly-critical judgment he was told he had acted beyond the limits of his expertise and ‘abused his position as a doctor’. As such, each member has seized the opportunity to kick their performances up several notches, all playing beyond my perceived limits of their abilities. This book presents the final version of Chaitin's course on the limits of mathematical reasoning. While I'm perfectly fine with nudity and crassness, sometimes it felt as though shots were composed to test the limits of what could pass the censors. Well, I am hoping to convince you that they passed far beyond the normal limits of statutory construction, the changing of the meaning of. These issues are moving the limits of storage from its technological limit to its practical limit. Behind her, a woman - presumably her mother - was standing nearby trying to make sure her sari did not unwrap itself beyond the limits of Indian modesty. The awe in which he was held allowed him to extend his influence beyond the formal limits of his office. If one is beyond the limits of acceptable political discourse, then surely the other is, too. Power management software can orchestrate the graceful shutdown of critical systems when power outages extend beyond the limits of backup systems. It appears he may have stepped beyond the limits of what he might otherwise have done. It is no longer necessary to be content with a cheap gadget, simply because the branded one is priced beyond the limits of the family budget. He means that it will be played on the edge of, and beyond, the limits of legality. Astronomy had its first close encounter with physics in the era of Kepler and Newton, but the consequences of that conjunction extended only to the limits of the solar system. But they had spent to their limit on research and over their limit to complete the first stages of production. But developing nations will generally borrow up to - and beyond - the limits of their ability to make the interest payments. They arrived at a slow-moving river, somewhere beyond the limits of Ryan and Allie's family's property, but not near anyone else's. No concept can allow us to rise so far: yet the aesthetic experience, which involves a perpetual striving to pass beyond the limits of our point of view, seems to embody what cannot be thought. 1.1often limits The terminal point or boundary of an area or movement. （地区或活动的）范围 the city limits 城市的范围。 the upper limit of the tidal reaches 海潮的最高点。 Example sentencesExamples The group slipped quickly down and back outside, following Don outside the city limits and into the forest. We must identify a plot of land outside the city limits. Start by finding a list of practices near where you live, as surgeries have boundary limits and you need to make sure you're within their area. There's little room to expand on the 100-acre Walter Reed campus in Washington, and city height limits forbid tall buildings. More important, in my opinion, are term limits in other areas of the government. One interesting note was that the official speed limit within city limits is 60 km nation wide, unless otherwise posted. Between 1503 and 1506 he was imprisoned for forging a document, branded on the face, and confined to the city limits. Taking a city tram from Basel as far as its terminus at the city limits, I followed the road on foot. The 82nd Airborne couldn't move from outside the city's limits without getting hammered. Figures showed that amounts of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide were predicted to exceed allowed annual limits in five areas of the city. Unfortunately, suburban sprawl in the area limits further extension of the quarry perimeter, and it is likely that this quarry may run out of stone to blast by 2015. Any excursion outside Brandon city limits was bound to reveal several new chunks smeared on the highway in neverending configurations of minced meat and bone. How can one feel like a citizen of a geographic area whose limits one can't place and whose capital cities one can't name? As a girl Ziana's grandfather had taken her camping outside of the city limits on several occasions. At the extreme tidal limits in wet areas, organic production may exceed sediment supply and peaty organic sediments may then accumulate. In the past, US strategy has placed explicit or implicit limits on the movement of American forces along these three axes. Four towers, originally built to demarcate the boundaries of Bangalore, are now very much inside city limits. The stolen pets change hands within a day or two and are sold to people outside the city limits, which make it very difficult for the owner to trace the stolen pet. Even more impressive is the car's overtaking performance once outside the city limits, where the boost from the turbocharger enables the car to whoosh past slower traffic in a very relaxed way. Justice Morin held that the City had the authority, pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Act, to designate any area within the City limits as an area where smoking is prohibited. Synonyms boundary, border, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, frontier, edge, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination perimeter, outside, outline, confine, periphery, margin, rim, extremity, fringe, threshold, compass 1.2 The furthest extent of one's physical or mental endurance. （体力或脑力的）极限 Mary Ann tried everyone's patience to the limit 玛丽安让大家忍无可忍了。 Example sentencesExamples With a gruelling fitness regime to get through, the pressure is on as the eight stretch their physical and mental endurance levels to the limit. It won't be the first time the keen sportsman has pushed the boundaries of human endurance to the limit in the name of charity. As an 18-year-old, they take you to the limit of your endurance. Overall you sense a band stretching each other to the limit, reaching out to invent a new format which would eventually become their downfall. The confidence based on the fact that I trained to the limit of my mental and physical capacity made me think so. Men and women crews train equally hard, and race to the limit of their physical capability - what's the difference? Candidates push themselves to the limit in a test that assess mental as well as physical toughness during a barrier test for army special forces entry. It was a while before the children realized that these two marines, laden with arms to the limit of physical endurance, were not going to hurt them. Contrary to the impression created by the end result, however, the intricate machinery and the mental processes were stressed to the limit as Schumacher won nine of the 10 races held so far. The next four hours were pushing her mental skills to the limit. It is all about recognising your physical and mental limits and training within them until you are ready to go a little beyond them. Motivation controls voluntary behavior up to the limit of physical capacity. That means stretching your mind and emotions and endurance to the limit and therefore getting stronger and stronger day by day. To a mountaineer it is the challenge of pushing physical resources to the limit by striving to achieve a demanding goal. Each heat will pit the entrants against each other in series of specially designed, sporting competitions which will push them to their physical and mental limits. I have suffered to the limit of my endurance, but I will never in my sane senses surrender to the evil power that has fixed its roots like a cancer on the world. It could take them six weeks to complete, will see them race over almost 4000 nautical miles and push their mental and physical abilities to the limit. We have had two hard days on the water and I have come nearly to the limit of my endurance. They may not be illegal, but he's always pushing that ethical edge to the limit. The CD pushes the listener to the limit of endurance, virtually begs you dismiss it as a depressing case of style over substance, then suddenly reveals hidden depths. Synonyms utmost, breaking point, extremity, greatest extent, ultimate, end point, the bitter end the last straw, the straw that broke the camel's back, enough, more than enough informal the end, it 2A restriction on the size or amount of something permissible or possible. 限制 an age limit 年龄限制。 a weight limit 体重限制。 Example sentencesExamples St-Maurice also says that setting limits for the amount of drugs found in someone's system is a political, and contradictory, issue. They have unilaterally removed class size limits at colleges. Providing there are age limits and other rules, but I see no reason why locals should be denied the opportunity to have a little fun. The task of the Charter was to give this concept as clear limits as possible. Reformists say the amount of public funding limits for the conventions and the campaigns need to be raised so candidates won't have to turn to private interest money. A system of private property governed by a rule of law sets limits on the permissible form of competition for resources. The suspended particulate matter is above permissible limits. Just how far can science push the possible limits? You have a company pension that was set up under the current regime, which is a cat's cradle of limits, restrictions, and extremely complicated rules. You can digitise almost all of your music collection (within certain limits due to copyright restrictions). Mr Cullen said the size limits were being reviewed to ensure effective competition and to take account of ongoing developments in the retail sector. Two more conventional measures, species-specific size restrictions and catch limits, appear in only a small number of fishing accords. Under the scheme, local authorities are set limits on the amount of biodegradable waste - like paper and garden refuse - they can dump in landfill sites. NSW Fisheries set strict bag limits and sizes and they are continually being reviewed to ensure fish stocks are preserved for the future. ‘We have not put any restrictions on the age limit,’ says V.K. Jayan, of Terracrafts, who leads the workshop. The dog is small enough to meet the size requirements of leases that put limits on the size of pets. Restrictions enacted under previous state legislation impose limits on the amount districts can increase their budgets. Since permissible limits in India are as high as to accommodate these pollutants, they cannot be booked under pollution control rules. The Food Standards Agency has already set limits on the amount of salt people should eat, with a high-profile campaign urging them to consume less than 6 grams a day. Government mandated limits on the amount of the chemicals that can be fed to the fish. Synonyms maximum, ceiling, limitation, upper limit restriction, curb, check, control, curtailment, restraint damper, brake, rein 2.1 A speed limit. 速度限制 a 30 mph limit 限速每小时30英里。 Example sentencesExamples Mr Faughnan said the main problem was that many speed limits were set too low, particularly 30 mph limits. Apparently one of those camera things snapped me breaking the limit in a thirty mph zone. Mr Brown's car had been videoed travelling at 42 mph in a 30 limit and he had gone to the police office to view the video. Although some cameras do operate outside schools, a vast majority of them are placed on busy roads with 30 or 40 mph limits, often not even in a built up area. At one stage we hit 90 mph in a thirty-mile limit. Speed limit signs, warning drivers that the limit is 30 mph, have also been erected. I've been told by Bangkok officials that the maximum speed limit within city limits is 60 KPH nationally. It's a tricky stretch, because it's two lanes all the way, so people assume the limit is 40 mph, but it's not. If someone cannot drive according to the limits, conditions and traffic flow then they shouldn't be out driving at all. Another story to achieve widespread circulation is the one of the motorist caught exceeding the limit by a speed camera in Cheshire. After our country's previous success with speed limit reductions to 55 mph, a lower limit should be even more attractive to the public. One motorist was caught travelling at more than twice the limit in a 30 mph zone. He added that we could run at track speed but that if the train were to exceed 30 cars the limit would be 60 mph. Legislation is now in place to collect fines at one mph over the limit - yet in law there has always been a 10% allowance for wear and tear of the speedometer. The remaining 16 reported regularly travelling up to 10 km/h above the limit. The old man in a white Cadillac was driving down the road ten mph under the limit with his left turn signal on while on a cell phone! Speed limits on high-speed roads, and the actual extreme percentile speeds, have generally decreased. Like it or lump it the present system is going to have to do - same limits, speed cameras, high fines. If the cameras are too close together it will create a bottleneck as people drive within the limit. In practice the police do exercise some discretion when confronting a motorist driving a few mph over the limit. 2.2also legal limit The maximum concentration of alcohol in the blood that the law allows in the driver of a motor vehicle. （法律允许的机动车驾驶员血液的）最高酒精浓度 the risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit 不慎超限量饮酒的危险。 Example sentencesExamples In Bulgaria the blood alcohol limit for motorists is 0.05, that is, 50 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood. As written, the story seems to contend that lowering of the blood alcohol limit is largely the result of the federal government offering more highway money as an incentive. Australian drink-drive levels are also lower, with blood concentration limit of 0.05 per cent compared with 0.08 per cent in Britain. It is expected to make speeding punishments more flexible, with drivers caught marginally over the limit getting two penalty points and those way over, six. Campaigners also warned party-goers that taking to the roads the morning after could be just as dangerous, with blood alcohol levels over the limit. It tells of a study conducted in Britain where it was found that using a cellphone was more of an impairment to driving than being over the legal 0,08 percent blood alcohol limit. He was arrested and breathalysed and found by blood analysis to be slightly over the limit, with a reading of 85. into whether the current blood alcohol limit for driving should be lowered from 80 mg per 100 ml to 50 mg. The survey also found that a lot of people thought the alcohol limit for drivers would be higher than at home. His blood alcohol level was nearly two and a half times over the limit when the blood test was taken at approximately 6.20 am. The legal limit for pilots and cabin crew is 20 milligrams of alcohol per hundred millilitres of blood, while the limit for driving is 80 milligrams of alcohol. Despite ever-growing public abhorrence of this most antisocial crime, numbers of drivers caught over the limit are rising. The current prescribed Blood Alcohol Concentration limit in China is 0.03. For a driver with twice the legal limit of alcohol in the blood they are more than 30 times more likely to have an accident than one who has not been drinking. I sincerely hope the British Medical Association is successful in its campaign to drive down the legal alcohol limit for drivers. The other driver had been 2 times over the legal alcohol limit and had run the red light at 75 miles per hour and totaled both cars. As a result, it has asked the Government to consider developing legislation which would set a blood alcohol limit for people on watch duty on board vessels. Why would it not include someone who has a blood alcohol content above the limit for driving a motor vehicle? Three hours later, a blood sample showed he was twice the legal limit for alcohol. Tests showed that he had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood. 3Mathematics A point or value which a sequence, function, or sum of a series can be made to approach progressively, until they are as close to it as desired. 〔数〕极限 Example sentencesExamples Around this time he discovered conditions under which a function is a limit of a sequence of continuous functions. In fact, the sequence converges to a limit whose value is 2.7182818. We begin in section 2 with two simple examples to show that the pointwise limit of a sequence of analytic functions need not be analytic. As the students themselves have observed, repeated magnification of a graph can not conclusively show the value of a limit. So again, we would want the limit of this sequence to be 1 / 0. verblimits, limited, limiting ˈlɪmɪtˈlɪmɪt [with object] Set or serve as a limit to. 限制 try to limit the amount you drink 限制你的饮酒量。 class sizes are limited to a maximum of 10 班级人数最多限定10人。 Example sentencesExamples This year it has gone further, limiting the amount of time they can spend covering for absent colleagues. We are now using the engine as a tool for maximising performance, not limiting it. This proposal would reduce the cost of insurance by limiting the amount that has to be paid out. Another major factor limiting the Europeans' performances has to be the heat and humidity. Phillips has been released on bail with restrictions limiting his access to computers. This is a rate limiting step, as a simultaneous start was needed across all 20 sites. Avoid high demands for air during the dive by limiting your depth and work-rate. Fishing effort could also be controlled by licensing boats and limiting their catches. If you stop consumers spending by limiting their credit then recession is inevitable. This may be due to effective treatments or the self limiting nature of the illnesses. Heat stress is a major factor limiting growth of cool-season plant species in many areas. Water availability is a major factor limiting the occurrence, abundance and growth of trees. This is limiting my choices and is a very shallow approach to relationships. New government regulations limiting the sort of DIY work that amateurs can carry out. It is aimed at limiting the damage done to the government electorally with a tiny pension rise this year. By limiting the number of children, they intended to give them better opportunities. Damage can help the designer by limiting the amount of force that the structure attracts. It can be limited to serve only as a convenient portable reading device. He asks whether there are any regulations limiting the number of teaching hours a teacher is required to do. Even where nutrients are scarce, this may not be of much importance if the prime limiting factor is water. Synonyms restrict, curb, check, place a limit on, cap, keep within bounds, hold in check, restrain, put a brake on, hold, freeze, peg regulate, control, govern, delimit, demarcate, circumscribe, ration arrest, bridle, inhibit, damp (down), fetter, tie down rare trammel Phrases be the limit informal Be intolerably troublesome or irritating. 〈非正式〉十分讨厌的，令人极度气恼的 you are the limit—you're suspicious of everything! Example sentencesExamples Generally I don't have much fear of clambering over things and taking risks but this was the limit. off limits 1Out of bounds. 禁止入内 the site was off limits to the public Example sentencesExamples Scientists are on the scene, but the mountain is off limits to hikers and climbers. Anything to the right of yellow is strictly off limits. After the war, Midway remained one of America's military linchpins, and was kept firmly off limits to visitors. Authorities made the area off limits to fishing, leaving hundreds out of work. Perhaps we should have dug deeper because it's quite apparent now that the whole topic was off limits. In our puritanical world, where marriages were arranged, romance was off limits. Now I have made the point more than once that this column is strictly off limits for political partisanship. Places that are off limits are especially interesting and should be explored thoroughly. You have to stand up and declare yourself off limits to emotional terrorism. Up to recently these waters were off limits to Western travelers. 1.1Not to be mentioned or discussed. it was apparent that the whole topic was off limits Example sentencesExamples You have the right to free speech in this country with certain areas being off limits. His private life was off limits during the interview. The steady shift to the right in official political circles and in the corporate-controlled media puts the most fundamental issues off limits in any encounter between president and press. Methodology in turn falls under the gaze of epistemology, the investigation of investigation itself - nothing is off limits to scientific questioning. A lot of Americans realize that serious security thinking at the university level requires a free-for-all in which you can't put some subjects off limits for debate. You may remember that he did a Today interview with John Humphreys in which Iraq was off limits. At no time has Latham stated categorically that the topic of tax-cuts are off limits. I honestly don't know why this argument is off limits. Discussion of the Civil War seemed to be off limits. He finally agrees on the condition that discussion of the manager's future is off limits. Synonyms taboo, censored, forbidden, banned, interdicted, proscribed, prohibited, not to be spoken of, ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable, unprintable, indescribable, out of bounds, beyond the pale, off limits, that dare not speak its name, disapproved of, frowned on within limits Moderately; up to a point. 适度地，在某范围内 airlines used to be able, within limits, to land or take off more or less when they pleased Example sentencesExamples My first boss, Roger, reckoned that the key to world progress and prosperity lay in an informed and, within limits, tolerant appreciation of cultural differences. I was also allowed, within limits, to photograph some of the items, careful not to disturb the integrity of the still unprotected diaries, photos and notebooks. What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable. The reason farming needs protection is also the reason we can, within limits, have the sort of farming we want: our post-agricultural economy makes us rich enough to afford it. Most of the adults on these campuses agree that human beings are sinners, prone to make mistakes, and, within limits, it's the job of the college to help set them on the right course, rather than simply kick them out. This is the game that teachers train their students to play: think without limits, practice within limits. So a textualist could, in principle and within limits, allow both a politically liberal and a politically conservative reading of the Constitution's text. Because this year at least one music company will be releasing CDs that positively invite copying - within limits. This is about allowing people their personal choice, within limits. Further, he was prepared to acknowledge and within limits even to tolerate the fact that the influence of Marxism itself had been thoroughly undermined, especially among the young. Synonyms comparatively, in comparison, by comparison, proportionately without limit With no restriction. the potential energy does not increase without limit Example sentencesExamples As a poet, his technical resources seem to have been without limit. That belief is one reason why he has so often and conspicuously argued to have boatloads of illegal aliens accepted without limit. They can divide without limit, which is what makes them so deadly. He said it's just a matter of time before nation-states accept the reality that they can't use their authority without limit and trample on human rights. Lastly, it settles for a method which is an extension of Islamic metaphysics by stating that ‘knowledge is limitless because the objects of knowledge are without limit.’ He was ordered to be detained without limit later that year after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. She can, like England, use without limit the immense industry of United States. I think we're meeting all conceivable moral obligations to the elderly, and I don't see any reason to suppose those obligations increase without limit just because we earn more money. In seventeen cases the disposal was as it would have been prior to the passage of the 1991 Act, a restriction order without limit of time. Better yet, the possibilities for an infiltrator in the development team who build the system would be literally without limit. Synonyms boundless, unbounded, unlimited, without limit, illimitable Derivatives limitable adjective limitative adjective ˈlɪmɪtətɪvˈlɪməˌteɪdɪv Turing and Godel, and the complexity theorists who have followed, have made fundamental limitative theorems a fact of mathematical life. Example sentencesExamples They suggest that redundancy is not merely a ‘limitative condition’, but is key to the transmission of the message itself. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin limes, limit- 'boundary, frontier'. The verb is from Latin limitare, from limes. noun.1 phr. Definition of limit in US English: limit nounˈlimitˈlɪmɪt 1A point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass. 界限 the limits of presidential power the 10-minute limit on speeches 十分钟的讲演时限。 there was no limit to his imagination 他有无限的想象力。 Example sentencesExamples The hunting community exists beyond the limits of what these people consider acceptable behaviour. Well, I am hoping to convince you that they passed far beyond the normal limits of statutory construction, the changing of the meaning of. The awe in which he was held allowed him to extend his influence beyond the formal limits of his office. These issues are moving the limits of storage from its technological limit to its practical limit. It appears he may have stepped beyond the limits of what he might otherwise have done. Power management software can orchestrate the graceful shutdown of critical systems when power outages extend beyond the limits of backup systems. But in a highly-critical judgment he was told he had acted beyond the limits of his expertise and ‘abused his position as a doctor’. The request to move out comes because the power of the live missile with a warhead goes beyond the safety limits of the firing range and shrapnel could be blasted on to surrounding land. As such, each member has seized the opportunity to kick their performances up several notches, all playing beyond my perceived limits of their abilities. Behind her, a woman - presumably her mother - was standing nearby trying to make sure her sari did not unwrap itself beyond the limits of Indian modesty. But developing nations will generally borrow up to - and beyond - the limits of their ability to make the interest payments. They arrived at a slow-moving river, somewhere beyond the limits of Ryan and Allie's family's property, but not near anyone else's. While I'm perfectly fine with nudity and crassness, sometimes it felt as though shots were composed to test the limits of what could pass the censors. If one is beyond the limits of acceptable political discourse, then surely the other is, too. He means that it will be played on the edge of, and beyond, the limits of legality. No concept can allow us to rise so far: yet the aesthetic experience, which involves a perpetual striving to pass beyond the limits of our point of view, seems to embody what cannot be thought. But they had spent to their limit on research and over their limit to complete the first stages of production. It is no longer necessary to be content with a cheap gadget, simply because the branded one is priced beyond the limits of the family budget. This book presents the final version of Chaitin's course on the limits of mathematical reasoning. Astronomy had its first close encounter with physics in the era of Kepler and Newton, but the consequences of that conjunction extended only to the limits of the solar system. 1.1often limits The terminal point or boundary of an area or movement. （地区或活动的）范围 the city limits 城市的范围。 the upper limit of the tidal reaches 海潮的最高点。 Example sentencesExamples Between 1503 and 1506 he was imprisoned for forging a document, branded on the face, and confined to the city limits. Taking a city tram from Basel as far as its terminus at the city limits, I followed the road on foot. There's little room to expand on the 100-acre Walter Reed campus in Washington, and city height limits forbid tall buildings. We must identify a plot of land outside the city limits. One interesting note was that the official speed limit within city limits is 60 km nation wide, unless otherwise posted. At the extreme tidal limits in wet areas, organic production may exceed sediment supply and peaty organic sediments may then accumulate. The group slipped quickly down and back outside, following Don outside the city limits and into the forest. Figures showed that amounts of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide were predicted to exceed allowed annual limits in five areas of the city. More important, in my opinion, are term limits in other areas of the government. As a girl Ziana's grandfather had taken her camping outside of the city limits on several occasions. The 82nd Airborne couldn't move from outside the city's limits without getting hammered. Any excursion outside Brandon city limits was bound to reveal several new chunks smeared on the highway in neverending configurations of minced meat and bone. Unfortunately, suburban sprawl in the area limits further extension of the quarry perimeter, and it is likely that this quarry may run out of stone to blast by 2015. How can one feel like a citizen of a geographic area whose limits one can't place and whose capital cities one can't name? Justice Morin held that the City had the authority, pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Act, to designate any area within the City limits as an area where smoking is prohibited. The stolen pets change hands within a day or two and are sold to people outside the city limits, which make it very difficult for the owner to trace the stolen pet. In the past, US strategy has placed explicit or implicit limits on the movement of American forces along these three axes. Start by finding a list of practices near where you live, as surgeries have boundary limits and you need to make sure you're within their area. Even more impressive is the car's overtaking performance once outside the city limits, where the boost from the turbocharger enables the car to whoosh past slower traffic in a very relaxed way. Four towers, originally built to demarcate the boundaries of Bangalore, are now very much inside city limits. Synonyms boundary, border, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, frontier, edge, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination 1.2 The furthest extent of one's physical or mental endurance. （体力或脑力的）极限 Mary Ann tried everyone's patience to the limit 玛丽安让大家忍无可忍了。 other horses were reaching their limit 其他的马体力消耗都快要到极限了。 Example sentencesExamples It could take them six weeks to complete, will see them race over almost 4000 nautical miles and push their mental and physical abilities to the limit. As an 18-year-old, they take you to the limit of your endurance. I have suffered to the limit of my endurance, but I will never in my sane senses surrender to the evil power that has fixed its roots like a cancer on the world. Candidates push themselves to the limit in a test that assess mental as well as physical toughness during a barrier test for army special forces entry. They may not be illegal, but he's always pushing that ethical edge to the limit. Motivation controls voluntary behavior up to the limit of physical capacity. The next four hours were pushing her mental skills to the limit. It was a while before the children realized that these two marines, laden with arms to the limit of physical endurance, were not going to hurt them. The confidence based on the fact that I trained to the limit of my mental and physical capacity made me think so. It is all about recognising your physical and mental limits and training within them until you are ready to go a little beyond them. The CD pushes the listener to the limit of endurance, virtually begs you dismiss it as a depressing case of style over substance, then suddenly reveals hidden depths. To a mountaineer it is the challenge of pushing physical resources to the limit by striving to achieve a demanding goal. With a gruelling fitness regime to get through, the pressure is on as the eight stretch their physical and mental endurance levels to the limit. Overall you sense a band stretching each other to the limit, reaching out to invent a new format which would eventually become their downfall. Contrary to the impression created by the end result, however, the intricate machinery and the mental processes were stressed to the limit as Schumacher won nine of the 10 races held so far. It won't be the first time the keen sportsman has pushed the boundaries of human endurance to the limit in the name of charity. Men and women crews train equally hard, and race to the limit of their physical capability - what's the difference? Each heat will pit the entrants against each other in series of specially designed, sporting competitions which will push them to their physical and mental limits. We have had two hard days on the water and I have come nearly to the limit of my endurance. That means stretching your mind and emotions and endurance to the limit and therefore getting stronger and stronger day by day. Synonyms utmost, breaking point, extremity, greatest extent, ultimate, end point, the bitter end the last straw, the straw that broke the camel's back, enough, more than enough 2A restriction on the size or amount of something permissible or possible. 限制 an age limit 年龄限制。 a weight limit 体重限制。 Example sentencesExamples You can digitise almost all of your music collection (within certain limits due to copyright restrictions). The task of the Charter was to give this concept as clear limits as possible. They have unilaterally removed class size limits at colleges. ‘We have not put any restrictions on the age limit,’ says V.K. Jayan, of Terracrafts, who leads the workshop. Two more conventional measures, species-specific size restrictions and catch limits, appear in only a small number of fishing accords. Reformists say the amount of public funding limits for the conventions and the campaigns need to be raised so candidates won't have to turn to private interest money. The dog is small enough to meet the size requirements of leases that put limits on the size of pets. You have a company pension that was set up under the current regime, which is a cat's cradle of limits, restrictions, and extremely complicated rules. The Food Standards Agency has already set limits on the amount of salt people should eat, with a high-profile campaign urging them to consume less than 6 grams a day. Under the scheme, local authorities are set limits on the amount of biodegradable waste - like paper and garden refuse - they can dump in landfill sites. St-Maurice also says that setting limits for the amount of drugs found in someone's system is a political, and contradictory, issue. NSW Fisheries set strict bag limits and sizes and they are continually being reviewed to ensure fish stocks are preserved for the future. Government mandated limits on the amount of the chemicals that can be fed to the fish. Just how far can science push the possible limits? Mr Cullen said the size limits were being reviewed to ensure effective competition and to take account of ongoing developments in the retail sector. Providing there are age limits and other rules, but I see no reason why locals should be denied the opportunity to have a little fun. A system of private property governed by a rule of law sets limits on the permissible form of competition for resources. Restrictions enacted under previous state legislation impose limits on the amount districts can increase their budgets. Since permissible limits in India are as high as to accommodate these pollutants, they cannot be booked under pollution control rules. The suspended particulate matter is above permissible limits. Synonyms maximum, ceiling, limitation, upper limit 2.1 A speed limit. 速度限制 a 30 mph limit 限速每小时30英里。 Example sentencesExamples Like it or lump it the present system is going to have to do - same limits, speed cameras, high fines. In practice the police do exercise some discretion when confronting a motorist driving a few mph over the limit. Mr Faughnan said the main problem was that many speed limits were set too low, particularly 30 mph limits. The old man in a white Cadillac was driving down the road ten mph under the limit with his left turn signal on while on a cell phone! If someone cannot drive according to the limits, conditions and traffic flow then they shouldn't be out driving at all. After our country's previous success with speed limit reductions to 55 mph, a lower limit should be even more attractive to the public. I've been told by Bangkok officials that the maximum speed limit within city limits is 60 KPH nationally. Speed limits on high-speed roads, and the actual extreme percentile speeds, have generally decreased. It's a tricky stretch, because it's two lanes all the way, so people assume the limit is 40 mph, but it's not. Speed limit signs, warning drivers that the limit is 30 mph, have also been erected. The remaining 16 reported regularly travelling up to 10 km/h above the limit. Another story to achieve widespread circulation is the one of the motorist caught exceeding the limit by a speed camera in Cheshire. He added that we could run at track speed but that if the train were to exceed 30 cars the limit would be 60 mph. Mr Brown's car had been videoed travelling at 42 mph in a 30 limit and he had gone to the police office to view the video. At one stage we hit 90 mph in a thirty-mile limit. If the cameras are too close together it will create a bottleneck as people drive within the limit. One motorist was caught travelling at more than twice the limit in a 30 mph zone. Apparently one of those camera things snapped me breaking the limit in a thirty mph zone. Although some cameras do operate outside schools, a vast majority of them are placed on busy roads with 30 or 40 mph limits, often not even in a built up area. Legislation is now in place to collect fines at one mph over the limit - yet in law there has always been a 10% allowance for wear and tear of the speedometer. 2.2 (in card games) an agreed maximum stake or bet. 2.3also legal limit The maximum concentration of alcohol in the blood that the law allows in the driver of a motor vehicle. （法律允许的机动车驾驶员血液的）最高酒精浓度 the risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit 不慎超限量饮酒的危险。 Example sentencesExamples In Bulgaria the blood alcohol limit for motorists is 0.05, that is, 50 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood. It tells of a study conducted in Britain where it was found that using a cellphone was more of an impairment to driving than being over the legal 0,08 percent blood alcohol limit. Australian drink-drive levels are also lower, with blood concentration limit of 0.05 per cent compared with 0.08 per cent in Britain. For a driver with twice the legal limit of alcohol in the blood they are more than 30 times more likely to have an accident than one who has not been drinking. Campaigners also warned party-goers that taking to the roads the morning after could be just as dangerous, with blood alcohol levels over the limit. The other driver had been 2 times over the legal alcohol limit and had run the red light at 75 miles per hour and totaled both cars. The legal limit for pilots and cabin crew is 20 milligrams of alcohol per hundred millilitres of blood, while the limit for driving is 80 milligrams of alcohol. The survey also found that a lot of people thought the alcohol limit for drivers would be higher than at home. Three hours later, a blood sample showed he was twice the legal limit for alcohol. into whether the current blood alcohol limit for driving should be lowered from 80 mg per 100 ml to 50 mg. As a result, it has asked the Government to consider developing legislation which would set a blood alcohol limit for people on watch duty on board vessels. The current prescribed Blood Alcohol Concentration limit in China is 0.03. I sincerely hope the British Medical Association is successful in its campaign to drive down the legal alcohol limit for drivers. Despite ever-growing public abhorrence of this most antisocial crime, numbers of drivers caught over the limit are rising. Tests showed that he had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood. Why would it not include someone who has a blood alcohol content above the limit for driving a motor vehicle? As written, the story seems to contend that lowering of the blood alcohol limit is largely the result of the federal government offering more highway money as an incentive. His blood alcohol level was nearly two and a half times over the limit when the blood test was taken at approximately 6.20 am. It is expected to make speeding punishments more flexible, with drivers caught marginally over the limit getting two penalty points and those way over, six. He was arrested and breathalysed and found by blood analysis to be slightly over the limit, with a reading of 85. 3Mathematics A point or value that a sequence, function, or sum of a series can be made to approach progressively, until it is as close to the point or value as desired. 〔数〕极限 Example sentencesExamples We begin in section 2 with two simple examples to show that the pointwise limit of a sequence of analytic functions need not be analytic. In fact, the sequence converges to a limit whose value is 2.7182818. Around this time he discovered conditions under which a function is a limit of a sequence of continuous functions. So again, we would want the limit of this sequence to be 1 / 0. As the students themselves have observed, repeated magnification of a graph can not conclusively show the value of a limit. verbˈlimitˈlɪmɪt [with object] Set or serve as a limit to. 限制 try to limit the amount you drink 限制你的饮酒量。 class sizes are limited to a maximum of 10 班级人数最多限定10人。 Example sentencesExamples Even where nutrients are scarce, this may not be of much importance if the prime limiting factor is water. He asks whether there are any regulations limiting the number of teaching hours a teacher is required to do. New government regulations limiting the sort of DIY work that amateurs can carry out. Heat stress is a major factor limiting growth of cool-season plant species in many areas. Damage can help the designer by limiting the amount of force that the structure attracts. We are now using the engine as a tool for maximising performance, not limiting it. This is a rate limiting step, as a simultaneous start was needed across all 20 sites. If you stop consumers spending by limiting their credit then recession is inevitable. This year it has gone further, limiting the amount of time they can spend covering for absent colleagues. This proposal would reduce the cost of insurance by limiting the amount that has to be paid out. It can be limited to serve only as a convenient portable reading device. This is limiting my choices and is a very shallow approach to relationships. This may be due to effective treatments or the self limiting nature of the illnesses. Fishing effort could also be controlled by licensing boats and limiting their catches. Avoid high demands for air during the dive by limiting your depth and work-rate. Another major factor limiting the Europeans' performances has to be the heat and humidity. By limiting the number of children, they intended to give them better opportunities. Water availability is a major factor limiting the occurrence, abundance and growth of trees. Phillips has been released on bail with restrictions limiting his access to computers. It is aimed at limiting the damage done to the government electorally with a tiny pension rise this year. Synonyms restrict, curb, check, place a limit on, cap, keep within bounds, hold in check, restrain, put a brake on, hold, freeze, peg Phrases be the limit informal Be intolerably troublesome or irritating. 〈非正式〉十分讨厌的，令人极度气恼的 Example sentencesExamples Generally I don't have much fear of clambering over things and taking risks but this was the limit. off limits 1Out of bounds. 禁止入内 they declared the site off limits 他们宣布该地禁止入内。 Example sentencesExamples Up to recently these waters were off limits to Western travelers. Authorities made the area off limits to fishing, leaving hundreds out of work. Places that are off limits are especially interesting and should be explored thoroughly. Anything to the right of yellow is strictly off limits. Perhaps we should have dug deeper because it's quite apparent now that the whole topic was off limits. You have to stand up and declare yourself off limits to emotional terrorism. Now I have made the point more than once that this column is strictly off limits for political partisanship. Scientists are on the scene, but the mountain is off limits to hikers and climbers. After the war, Midway remained one of America's military linchpins, and was kept firmly off limits to visitors. In our puritanical world, where marriages were arranged, romance was off limits. 1.1Not to be mentioned or discussed. it was apparent that the whole topic was off limits Example sentencesExamples I honestly don't know why this argument is off limits. At no time has Latham stated categorically that the topic of tax-cuts are off limits. A lot of Americans realize that serious security thinking at the university level requires a free-for-all in which you can't put some subjects off limits for debate. Discussion of the Civil War seemed to be off limits. He finally agrees on the condition that discussion of the manager's future is off limits. The steady shift to the right in official political circles and in the corporate-controlled media puts the most fundamental issues off limits in any encounter between president and press. His private life was off limits during the interview. You may remember that he did a Today interview with John Humphreys in which Iraq was off limits. Methodology in turn falls under the gaze of epistemology, the investigation of investigation itself - nothing is off limits to scientific questioning. You have the right to free speech in this country with certain areas being off limits. Synonyms taboo, censored, forbidden, banned, interdicted, proscribed, prohibited, not to be spoken of, ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable, unprintable, indescribable, out of bounds, beyond the pale, off limits, that dare not speak its name, disapproved of, frowned on within limits Moderately; up to a point. 适度地，在某范围内 Example sentencesExamples The reason farming needs protection is also the reason we can, within limits, have the sort of farming we want: our post-agricultural economy makes us rich enough to afford it. My first boss, Roger, reckoned that the key to world progress and prosperity lay in an informed and, within limits, tolerant appreciation of cultural differences. What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable. Most of the adults on these campuses agree that human beings are sinners, prone to make mistakes, and, within limits, it's the job of the college to help set them on the right course, rather than simply kick them out. Because this year at least one music company will be releasing CDs that positively invite copying - within limits. I was also allowed, within limits, to photograph some of the items, careful not to disturb the integrity of the still unprotected diaries, photos and notebooks. So a textualist could, in principle and within limits, allow both a politically liberal and a politically conservative reading of the Constitution's text. Further, he was prepared to acknowledge and within limits even to tolerate the fact that the influence of Marxism itself had been thoroughly undermined, especially among the young. This is about allowing people their personal choice, within limits. This is the game that teachers train their students to play: think without limits, practice within limits. Synonyms comparatively, in comparison, by comparison, proportionately without limit With no restriction. Example sentencesExamples They can divide without limit, which is what makes them so deadly. I think we're meeting all conceivable moral obligations to the elderly, and I don't see any reason to suppose those obligations increase without limit just because we earn more money. Better yet, the possibilities for an infiltrator in the development team who build the system would be literally without limit. That belief is one reason why he has so often and conspicuously argued to have boatloads of illegal aliens accepted without limit. She can, like England, use without limit the immense industry of United States. In seventeen cases the disposal was as it would have been prior to the passage of the 1991 Act, a restriction order without limit of time. He was ordered to be detained without limit later that year after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He said it's just a matter of time before nation-states accept the reality that they can't use their authority without limit and trample on human rights. As a poet, his technical resources seem to have been without limit. Lastly, it settles for a method which is an extension of Islamic metaphysics by stating that ‘knowledge is limitless because the objects of knowledge are without limit.’ Synonyms boundless, unbounded, unlimited, without limit, illimitable Origin Late Middle English: from Latin limes, limit- ‘boundary, frontier’. The verb is from Latin limitare, from limes. noun.1 phr.
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