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limit

英 ['lɪmɪt] 美['lɪmɪt]

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n. 限制；限度；界线
vt. 限制；限定

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Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

Its capacity actually knows no limits.

New research shows that dogs limit their eye contact with angry humans.

Setting a limit on the amount of sugar or salt in their products.

In April, France passed a law setting lower limits for a model's weight.

They set a time limit for each specific task.

Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

So why not limit the density of food outlets, particularly ones that sell food rich in empty calories?

And why not limit sale of food in places that aren't primarily food stores

To effectively limit the density of alcohol outlets.

According to the author, Obama's plan to limit carbon dioxide emissions will by no means be inexpensive

They're also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student's limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.

The power of positive thinking is limited.

The problem is] not limited to porn (色情) or gambling" websites

Sure, in the past electric vehicles have their problems, namely, a limited driving range, and very few recharging points, which limited their use.

Partly as a consequence of this limited time, over half of all American homes now have microwave ovens

And despite what you may believe about the limits of your own creative imaginations, we all have the potential to imagine the world in an absolutely new way.

Japanese laws limit the amount of imported potatoes that can be used in Japanese-made products.

Marketers must qualify their claims on the product packaging and limit them to a specific benefit, such as how much of the product is recycled.

To limit the FAA's functions.

Yet improvement won’t come easily, it won’t come overnight and there are limits beyond which not even science can take us.

It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages.

If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English

One free social networking website turned out to successful because it limited each posting to one hundred and forty characters.

In the meantime, the amount of CO2 in the air is rapidly approaching the limits proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

refers to concentration of resources in a limited number of universities.

concentration of resources in a limited number of universities

That's because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits.

Einstein pushed mathematics almost to its limits

People nowadays seem to have the sense that their time has become more limited.

We will have to limit the registration.

Limit the number of participants in the conference

They hope to do miracles with limited resources.

Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption to limit access to people's data.

Experts said that whether or not Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost certainly be able to further limit the government's reach.

At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.

But no one does enough to limit exemptions.

But our funds were limited, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.

Corporate and institutional office designers often struggle to resolve a number of competing and often conflicting demands, including budgetary limits, employee hierarchies, and technological innovationespecially in relation to computerization.

In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol explained our role in the earth's changing atmosphere and set international limits for gas emissions from 2008 to 2012.

In addition, the information about each word in a pocket dictionary is generally limited.

It does point out that many parents still limit electronic reading, mainly due to concerns about increased screen time.

It limits the spread of new growing techniques.

Misjudgments on the influences of new technology can lead to a waste of limited resources.

More recently, the Paris Agreement, stuck by nearly 200 countries, also aims to limit global warming.

Nearly 40 percent of Jazz lovers live outside of the Dallas city limits and drive or fly in to enjoy an evening in the Bishop Arts district.

Parents ought to be able to opt out only for limited medical or religious reasons.

Some of them are also later sold, in order to limit the number of ponies according to the rules set by natural england.

The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

This is the most ambitious goal for temperature rise set by the Paris agreement, after a push by low-lying island nations like Kiribati, which say limiting temperature rise to ?

To people who are used to the limited choice of apples such as golden delicious and royal gala in supermarkets, it can be quite an eye opener to see the range of classical apples still in existence, such as decio which was grown by the romans.

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

With her talent and determination, it appears that the sky could be the limit for Alice moore.

But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

But senior medical figures want to stop fast-food outlets opening near schools, restrict advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar, and limit sponsorship of sports events by fast-food producers such as McDonald's.

But the Nobel Foundation's limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to ack

You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers.