核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a line drawn around something, and nothing crossing it. Draw the line close to your body and you get a confined space, where the walls are near enough to touch. Draw it around a town and you get a flood confined to that town. Draw it around a bed and you get a person confined to bed. The line is the same every time; what changes is what sits inside it, and how much room that leaves.

可以想成有人在某樣東西外面畫了一圈線,而且沒有東西越得過去。線畫得貼近身體,就是 a confined space,更多收起可以想成有人在某樣東西外面畫了一圈線,而且沒有東西越得過去。線畫得貼近身體,就是 a confined space,牆伸手就摸得到。線畫在一個城鎮外面,就是災情只到那裡為止。線畫在一張床邊,就是有人只能躺在上面。線一直是同一條,變的是圈在裡面的是什麼,還有裡面剩多少空間。

Three branches

線畫在空間上

這是最看得見的一支:圈起來的就是你站的地方。

adjective · B2

Used about a space or an area that is very small, with walls or edges close around you, so there is little room to move.

狹小的

線畫在範圍上

同一條線,改畫在「事情能走多遠」上面,而不是畫在牆上。

adjective · B2

If something is confined to a place or a group, it happens in, or affects, only that place or that group, and does not reach beyond it.

僅限於

線畫在人身上

線還是那條線,這次裡面站的是一個人,而且不是他自己選要站進去的。

adjective · B2

Kept in one place and not able to leave it, usually because of illness, injury, or a rule someone else has made.

只能待在

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

confinedadj/kənˈfaɪnd/

  • 1

    Not free to move.

    • Mia was confined to her bedroom after suffering a broken leg.
  • 2

    Limited; narrow; restricted.

  • 3

    In a childbed.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。