Limitation

(noun.) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation).

(noun.) the quality of being limited or restricted; 'it is a good plan but it has serious limitations'.

(noun.) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought; 'statute of limitations'.

录入:洛根

• At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The philosophy of her nature, and its limitation by circumstances, was almost written in her movements. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In the subsequent chapters (XVIII-XXII) we considered the present limitation of its actual realization. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• His lips trembled and stood apart, as he followed this repudiation of himself; and limitation of her words to her brother. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For many uses the fact that anyone suitably equipped can listen in on a wireless telephone talk would be a serious limitation to its use. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The fourth limitation is derived from the inconstancy of the cause of these passions, and from the short duration of its connexion with ourselves. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This description must be received with a week-day limitation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But limitation of capacity is one of the things which has to be learned; like other things, it is learned through the experience of consequences. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The third limitation is, that the pleasant or painful object be very discernible and obvious, and that not only to ourselves, but to others also. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• That civilization had been a civilization of wealth and political power sustained by the limitation and slavery of the great mass of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was the insistence on the limitation which so bored Birkin in Gerald. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Both the Christian church and Islam demonstrated the unsoundness of Aristotle's limitation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And when the animating motive is desire for private profit or personal power, this limitation is inevitable. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Yet his account of the Eightfold Path is, nevertheless, within these limitations, profoundly wise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Wilson, at least, knows the limitations of his philosophy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They were limited in knowledge and outlook; they were limited by the limitations of the time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The community of will is limited in size by the limitations set upon the possibilities of a community of knowledge. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But Akbar, like all men, great or petty, lived within the limitations of his period and its circles of ideas. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Inventors have found, however, that high speed is handicapped with certain limitations. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Thus it was that Tarzan learned by experience the limitations as well as the possibilities of his strange weapon. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In fact, the inherent limitations of experience are often urged as the sufficient ground for attention to thinking. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Regard must be had to their traditions, their opportunities, and their limitations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I shall close this subject with a reflection derived from these five limitations. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• There are human limitations even for such a tireless worker as he is. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He saw their limitations and restrictions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was plainly seen that economic and political limitations were ultimately dependent upon limitations of thought and feeling. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• You acknowledge no rules--no limitations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The enduring value of these books lies in the clear idea they give us of the quality and limitations of the ruling minds of this age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:奥利弗