Limit

(noun.) the greatest possible degree of something; 'what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior'; 'to the limit of his ability'.

(noun.) the boundary of a specific area.

(noun.) as far as something can go.

(noun.) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed; 'there are limits on the amount you can bet'; 'it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight'.

(noun.) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity.

(verb.) restrict or confine, 'I limit you to two visits to the pub a day'.

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• There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• With improvements in safety there seems no limit to the possibilities of flight. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• From the first the patronage even of Ptolemy I set a limit to political discussion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Dan was the northern and Beersheba the southern limit of Palestine--hence the expression from Dan to Beersheba. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• O, you are too relentless--there's a limit to the cruelty of savages! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I would allow the State to increase so far as is consistent with unity; that, I think, is the proper limit. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A constitution of the Japanese type came into existence in 1909, making China a limited monarchy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As long as we could hold our position the enemy was limited in supplies of food, men and munitions of war to what they had on hand. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The foreign language, the limited time, the public display. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He limited the number of these traders to one for each of his three armies. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Until the beginning of 1882 there were only a few arc-lighting stations in existence for the limited distribution of current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mr. Pott's domestic circle was limited to himself and his wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her very limited intercourse with Mr Rokesmith rendered this hard to find out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• MY limits are inscribed on that Document. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It reached out far beyond the utmost limits of the empire, into Armenia, Persia, Abyssinia, Ireland, Germany, India, and Turkestan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But only think what that tiresome Henry has done; really, he exceeds brother-in-law's limits. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Sherman may be looked for in the neighborhood of Goldsboro' any time from the 22d to the 28th of February; this limits your time very materially. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The limits imposed practically were such as to require that the system should not cost more than a cable road to install. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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.

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