- 1範圍、界限（多指範圍內，略有受限感）
The confines of a place are its limits or borders — and, very often, the space inside those edges. You stay within the confines of the town, the building, the park. Writers also stretch it to rules and roles: within the confines of the law, the confines of her job. The feeling is a bit closed-in; the word often hints that the space is small, or that you are not free to go past it. It is slightly formal or literary. In easy talk people say limits, borders, or just inside. Though actually, you almost always meet this meaning in the plural: the confines, not a . The related verb means to keep someone or something inside those limits.
From the word’s history
From Middle French confins, from Latin confīnium 'common boundary'.
源自法文 confins「邊界」，來自拉丁文 confīnium「交界處」。
組成The plural noun from confine. The older idea is a shared border: Latin con- (together) + finis (end, border).
同家族的字
- confinethe verb: to keep someone or something inside limits
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
confinesnoun/ˈkɑnfaɪnz/
- 1
The borders or limits of an area.
- It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
- 2
The elements that restrain someone.
- "I think that there comes a point where people begin to get bored within their own confines, so there is definitely an opportunity to encourage travel - even though it will be a different sort of arrangement than we've been used to in the past.
- 3
The scope or range of a subject.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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