(adj.) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; 'the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause' .
手打:朱迪
双语例句
The preceding Section has shown clearly the danger of too strong a current, and the necessity for limiting the current to that which the wire can safely carry. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Hence the public has the right of regulating descents, and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and the uses of it. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
No age has produced such a multitude of elaborate studies, and any selection was, of course, a limiting one. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The natural, or native, powers furnish the initiating and limiting forces in all education; they do not furnish its ends or aims. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Such expenses as the dignity of his station required he readily sustained, limiting them by the strictest rules of propriety. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
A certain blunt, blind stupidity in him palled on her soul, limiting her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.