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Something restrictive stops people doing what they want to do. A rule, a law, a diet, a contract, or a parent’s policy can be restrictive: it draws a tight line around what is allowed. The word judges the thing that limits, not the person who is limited. It is common in news, school, and work talk, and it can sound critical — “too restrictive” means the limits feel unfair or too tight. There is also a grammar use (a restrictive clause), but that is a specialist label; this sense is the everyday one about limits on action.
限制很多的、約束性強的
組成From Middle French restrictif. In English it is restrict + -ive (“having the quality of restricting”).
同家族的字
- restrictthe verb: to put limits on
- restrictionthe noun: a limit itself
- unrestrictedthe opposite: not limited in this way
原始詞典資料3 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。
restrictiveadj/ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/
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Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
- The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
- The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
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limiting free and easy bodily movement.
- Some of them [teenagers] who will become lesbians clearly are being hit with the same kind of garbage which we got hit with in the fifties. There's been a real resurgence of that in terms of values and double standards and music. The clothes again — we're back to high heels and restrictive little femmy outfits.
restrictivenoun/ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.
- […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。