circumscribe的经典引文是：Therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd.出自：Hamlet,Shakespeare。circumscribe的意思是v.限制；划一条线包围；确定...的范围；画（几何图形的）外接圆。circumscribe形容词:circumscribable；名词:circumscriber；过去式:circumscribed；过去分词:circumscribed；现在分词:circumscribing；第三人称单数:circumscribes。
一、词典解释点此查看circumscribe的详细内容
1.约束;制约;限制
If someone's power or freedomis circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
e.g. The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed...
军方显然担心在他的领导下，其活动将受到严重制约。
e.g. There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
有多项法律限制公民的权利，使其不得对他人进行人身伤害。
二、网络解释
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1. 外切：Circle graph 扇面图 |Circumscribe 外切 | Inscribe 内切
2. circumscribe的翻译
2. 限制,圆圈：conscribe 征兵 |circumscribe 限制,圆圈 | debate 争论
3. 限制：conscribe 征兵 |circumscribe 限制 | subscribe 订阅
4. 外切,外接：radian 弧度=角度*pi/180 |circumscribe 外切,外接 | inscribe 内切,内接
三、例句
Do not circumscribe your study only in classes.
不要把自己的学习只局限于课堂。
A man should not circumscribe his activity by any inflexible fence of rigid rules.
人不应该将自己的行为限制在由僵化的条文构成的不可变通的范围之内。
Please circumscribe the words which are wrongly spelled.
请将拼错的词圈出来。
First, it is always possible to circumscribe a sphere in a camera-aligned quad.
首先，它总能保证和一个与摄像机对齐的矩形相切。
四、经典引文
Therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd.
出自：Hamlet,ShakespeareTo play lawn-tennis..in the exceedingly circumscribed court.
出自：E. F. Bensoncircumscribe的相关近义词
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circumscribe的相关临近词
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