restrict

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

There is talk of raising the admission requirements to restrict the number of students on campus. 有提高錄取條件來限制校園裡學生數量的說法。

2. restrictionN-UNCOUNT 限制

Since the costs of science were rising faster than inflation, some restriction on funding was necessary. 既然科學成本上漲快於通貨膨脹，資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

The government imprisoned dissidents, forbade travel, and restricted the press. 政府關押了持不同政見者，禁止了出遊，限制了新聞自由。

4. restrictionN-UNCOUNT 限制

...the justification for this restriction of individual liberty. …對限制個人自由的辯護。

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 (在某範圍)

For the first two weeks, patients are restricted to the grounds. 最初兩周病人們被限制在院內活動。

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

Trustees had decided to restrict university entry to about 30 percent of applicants. 董事們已經決定把大學入學率限定在申請人數的30％左右。