limiting

adj.

1. 限制性的
   putting limits on what is possible
   1. Lack of cash is a limiting factor.
      现金短缺是一个制约因素。

1. N-COUNT 极限
   A limit is the greatest amount, extent, or degree of something that is possible.
   1. Her love for him was being tested to its limits...
      她对他的爱经受着极其严峻的考验。
   2. There is no limit to how much fresh fruit you can eat in a day...
      每天食用多少新鲜水果都可以。
   3. Firefighters are being stretched to the limit as fire sweeps through the drought-stricken state.
      火势在这个遭受旱灾的州里迅速蔓延，消防队员疲于应对，接近极限。
2. N-COUNT （特定的）限期，限额，限度
   A limit of a particular kind is the largest or smallest amount of something such as time or money that is allowed because of a rule, law, or decision.
   1. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June...
      3个月的限期截至6月中旬。
   2. The economic affairs minister announced limits on petrol sales.
      经济部长宣布了对石油销售的限制。
3. N-COUNT （区域的）界限
   The limit of an area is its boundary or edge.
   1. ...the city limits of Baghdad.
      巴格达市区
4. N-PLURAL （可能行动或结果的）范围
   The limits of a situation are the facts involved in it which make only some actions or results possible.
   1. She has to work within the limits of a fairly tight budget...
      她不得不在相当紧张的预算范围内精打细算。
   2. He outlined the limits of British power.
      他勾画了英国的势力范围。
5. VERB 限制；限定
   If you limit something, you prevent it from becoming greater than a particular amount or degree.
   1. He limited payments on the country's foreign debt...
      他对该国外债的偿还作出了限制。
   2. The view was that the economy would grow by 2.25 per cent. This would limit unemployment to around 2.5 million.
      这一观点认为经济将会增长2.25%，这将把失业人数限定在250万左右。
6. VERB 使（某人）受限
   If you limit yourself to something, or if someone or something limits you, the number of things that you have or do is reduced.
   1. It is now accepted that men should limit themselves to 20 units of alcohol a week...
      现在人们已经接受，男性一周饮酒量不应超过20个单位。
   2. Voters cut councillors' pay and limited them to one staff member each.
      选民削减了市政会委员的薪酬，并且限定他们每人只配一个工作人员。
7. VERB （使）限于（某一地方或群体）
   If something is limited to a particular place or group of people, it exists only in that place, or is had or done only by that group.
   1. The protests were not limited to New York...
      抗议活动不只限于纽约。
   2. Entry to this prize draw is limited to UK residents.
      这次抽奖只限英国公民参加。
8. See also: age limit limited
9. PHRASE 禁止进入
   If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there.
   1. A one-mile area around the wreck is still off limits...
      沉船方圆一英里内仍然禁止进入。
   2. These establishments are off limits to ordinary citizens.
      这些建筑禁止普通公民入内。
10. PHRASE 被禁止
    If you say that something is off limits, you mean that you are not allowed to do it.
    1. Smoking was off limits everywhere.
       到处都禁止吸烟。
11. PHRASE （驾驶时）血液中酒精浓度超标的
    If someone is over the limit, they have drunk more alcohol than they are legally allowed to when driving a vehicle.
    1. If police breathalyse me and find I am over the limit I face a long ban...
       如果警察对我作呼气测醉试验，发现我饮酒过量，我将会被禁驾很长时间。
    2. He was found to be three times over the limit.
       他血液中的酒精浓度是允许极限的3倍。
12. PHRASE 没有任何限制；一切都是可能的（或能达到的）
    If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.
    1. They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit.
       他们发现，就收入和事业成功来讲，多高都有可能的。
13. PHRASE 在一定范围内；有限度地
    If you add within limits to a statement, you mean that it is true or applies only when talking about reasonable or normal situations.
    1. In the circumstances we'll tell you what we can, within limits, of course, and in confidence.
       在这种情况下，我们会把能告诉你的都告诉你，当然这是有限度的，而且需要保密。

1. Two-thirds of the French are in favour of limiting foreign imports into Europe.
   三分之二的法国人赞成限制欧洲的进口贸易。
2. Everyone benefited from limiting their intake of tea to just three or four cups a day
   每天只喝三四杯茶对身体有益。
3. Limiting casualties is important for public relations.
   减少伤亡人数对于维护公众形象很重要。
4. Security concerns are also limiting freedom of movement and open campaigning.
   关于安全的顾虑限制了行动的自由和竞选活动的公开。
5. Security is also a must for such systems, thus limiting access to the systems.
   安全性也是许多系统必须关注的问题，所以会限制对系统的访问。
6. Sometimes, this is too limiting.
   有时，这太过于局限性。
7. The traditional limiting factors for scalability are access to CPU, memory, and I/ O.
   可伸缩性的传统制约因素是对CPU、内存和I/O的访问。
8. You could use a Web container, but it needs its own way of synchronizing and limiting threads.
   您可以使用Web容器，但它需要自己的同步和限制线程数量的方式。
9. Your doctor may recommend limiting the amount of fat and starch in your diet.
   你的医生可能建议你限制日常饮食中的脂肪和淀粉含量。
10. The size of driving pressure and resistance of flowing path are distinct elements and limiting factors.
    驱动压力的大小和流动路线上的阻力是排水能力的明显成因和限制因素。
11. This is severely limiting, but there is a reason.
    这是受到严格限制的，因为这是有原因的。
12. Developing and enforcing legislation on key risk factors including limiting speed;
    针对主要风险因素制定和实施法律，包括限制速度；
13. Designed for properly sized and approved areas with current and voltage limiting barriers.
    设计适当大小和批准的区域与电流和电压限制的障碍。
14. Time is the limiting factor.
    时间是限制性的因素。
15. Researchers have contained both problems while limiting increases in the cost of production.
    在限制生产成本增加的同时，研究人员考虑到了这两个问题。
16. Some packet filters are implemented inside routers, limiting computing power and filtering capabilities.
    有些包过滤器是在路由器内实现的，这限制了计算能力和过滤功能。
17. Light-skinned people have the highest risk But can reduce it by limiting exposure to sunlight and to ionizing radiation.
    浅肤色者的致癌机率最高，但可经由限制曝露于日光和电离辐射而减少风险。
18. Again, the inhibiting effect on microbial activity is associated with limiting the availability of water for microbial growth.
    同时，对微生物的活性的抑制效果与限制微生物对水的利用有关。
19. Low temperature is a major factor limiting the productivity and geographical distribution of many plant species.
    摘要低温是影响许多植物的产量和地理分布的一个主要环境因素。
20. Moreover, cycles including these limiting temperatures and the unattainability of absolute zero are discussed.
    此外，讨论了包含这些极限温度的循环过程以及绝对零度不能达到等。
21. Adding a current limiting resistor or fuse in series with each switch will help prevent this type of damage.
    在每个开关上串联一个限流电阻或保险丝，将有助于防止这种类型的损坏。
22. It's already almost at the limiting case.
    它已经几乎是在极限的情况了。
23. In the production and propagation of lasers there are more or less limiting apertures.
    在激光的产生和传输过程中或多或少地要受到光阑的限制。
24. A very restricting, limiting choice.
    一个约束和限制非常强的选择。
25. The providence, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.
    上帝赋予了人有限的力量，却给了他无穷的欲望。
26. It considers uncertainties in both estimated displacements under expected service loads and the limiting tolerable displacements.
    此判据既考虑了限制容许位移的不确定性，也考虑了期望荷载下的估计位移的不确定性。
27. But this habit is limiting and dangerous; you could be fixating on the wrong answers.
    但是这个习惯是有局限和危险的，你可能就对错误的解答坚定不移。
28. But most of today's applications need handsets with robust computing power, limiting their potential market.
    但现在的大多数手机应用都需要手机拥有强大的运算能力，这限制了它们的潜在市场。
29. This is because countervailing forces are in play, limiting any net effect.
    这是因为对抗性力量在起作用，限制了任何实质改变。
30. Nitrogen is essential for forest growth and development, and commonly limiting for the forest productivity.
    其中氮素对林木生长和发育十分重要，而且常是森林生产力的限制因素。

noun

1. the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

   Synonym:    modificationqualifying

adj

1. restricting the scope or freedom of action

   Synonym:    confiningconstrainingconstrictiverestricting

2. strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase
   1. the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause