Limiting

(adj.) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; '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' .

手打:朱迪

• The preceding Section has shown clearly the danger of too strong a current, and the necessity for limiting the current to that which the wire can safely carry. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Hence the public has the right of regulating descents, and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and the uses of it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• No age has produced such a multitude of elaborate studies, and any selection was, of course, a limiting one. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The natural, or native, powers furnish the initiating and limiting forces in all education; they do not furnish its ends or aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Such expenses as the dignity of his station required he readily sustained, limiting them by the strictest rules of propriety. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A certain blunt, blind stupidity in him palled on her soul, limiting her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

整理:奥拉