restrict /rɪˈstrɪkt/ CET4 TEM4 ( restricting, restricted, restricts )

• 1. 

  V-T If you restrict something, you put a limit on it in order to reduce it or prevent it from becoming too great. 限制

  例：

  There is talk of raising the admission requirements to restrict the number of students on campus.

  有提高录取条件来限制校园里学生数量的说法。

• 2. 

  restriction N-UNCOUNT 限制

  例：

  Since the costs of science were rising faster than inflation, some restriction on funding was necessary.

  既然科学成本上涨快于通货膨胀，资助上的一些限制是必要的。

• 3. 

  V-T To restrict the movement or actions of someone or something means to prevent them from moving or acting freely. 限制

  例：

  The government imprisoned dissidents, forbade travel, and restricted the press.

  政府关押了持不同政见者，禁止了出游，限制了新闻自由。

• 4. 

  restriction N-UNCOUNT 限制

  例：

  ...the justification for this restriction of individual liberty.

  …对限制个人自由的辩护。

• 5. 

  V-T If you restrict someone or their activities to one thing, they can only do, have, or deal with that thing. If you restrict them to one place, they cannot go anywhere else. 限制 (在某范围)

  例：

  For the first two weeks, patients are restricted to the grounds.

  最初两周病人们被限制在院内活动。

• 6. 

  V-T If you restrict something to a particular group, only that group can do it or have it. If you restrict something to a particular place, it is allowed only in that place. 限定

  例：

  Trustees had decided to restrict university entry to about 30 percent of applicants.

  董事们已经决定把大学入学率限定在申请人数的30％左右。