The bill,which now goes to the Senate, would remove a $75 million limit on liability for oil spill damages and put a new tax on the industry to fund nationwide conservation projects.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

在创作的时候，作者会给文章加上个限制，他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

On March thirty-first, President Johnson spoke to Americans about the war in Vietnam and his efforts to limit it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The question is there a limit to the kind of calculator I don't care. You can bring a mainframe in on a truck.

问题是对计算器的种类有没有限制,我不在乎，你们可以用大卡车带个主机来。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Opposition Republican leaders agree on the need to raise the borrowing limit by August second or risk the nation's first default.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

It tells how--there's a conforming loan limit that is a limit on how much Fannie and Freddie -how big a mortgage they can make to one homeowner.

两者都有一个贷款限额标准,也就是限定房利美和房地美,面向单个购房者的抵押贷款额度

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

On Tuesday,a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that current laws limit government power over Internet traffic.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

It says that function, f of x, is bounded above here's an upper limit on it, that this grows no faster than quadratic in n, n squared.

这意味着这个方法f是有上限的,这个方法增长的速度,不会比括号内的n*n快。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

President Obama said it was not a limit on what the company might have to pay.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

And, this will go on and on and on without limit.

这会无止尽地进行下去。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But it did not want to violate a limit on so-called electioneering communication by corporations and unions within thirty days of a primary election.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

But there is no time limit on it.

但是没有时间限制。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But on Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned lawmakers that lack of action to raise the borrowing limit would mean a lower credit rating.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

It's for small investors because currently the limit on the SEC is $100,000; that's not a lot of money.

对于小额投资者,SEC规定的最低担保额为10万美元,实在不算多

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the ban does not limit access on other computers.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He put a quantitative limit on that.

他在上面加了个数量限制。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

World stock prices fell on Wednesday after Germany approved new regulations to limit speculative selling of euro-dominated government bonds.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

It would also bar insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions, and would limit their ability to impose large rate increases.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Spokesman Shimelis,however, said the law does not place any limit on length of detention.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

The legislation will seek to limit risk-taking at firms and would raise regulatory requirements to ensure that banks have enough money on hand to weather an economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Indiana representative Mike Pence called a proposal by the Democratic party to protect the environment by putting a limit on greenhouse gases " an economic declaration of war."

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

Saudi Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabeeah urged the Arab press to inform the public about the decision to limit Hajj participation and noted that his country was increasing the number of flu shots on hand to control an eventual outbreak.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

China has acknowledged the need to limit its carbon emissions, but argued that greater responsibility falls on advanced industrialized nations like the United States, which produced large quantities of greenhouse gases for decades before China's rise as a global economic power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26