limit: [14] Latin līmes originally denoted a ‘path between fields’, but it became extended metaphorically to any ‘boundary’ or ‘limit’, and that was the sense in which English acquired it (in its stem form līmit-). => lintel
limit (n.)
c. 1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.
limit (v.)
late 14c., from Old French limiter "mark (a boundary), restrict; specify," from Latin limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: limited; limiting.
双语例句
1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.
有些情况下有最低年龄限制。
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2. They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
他们通过实施低技术规格拼命限制成本。
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3. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.
3个月的限期截至6月中旬。
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4. He was nearly three times over the drink drive limit.
他超过醉酒驾驶规定标准快三倍了。
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5. A speed limit of 30 mph was introduced in built-up areas.