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.
雙語例句
1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.
有些情況下有最低年齡限製。
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2. They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
他們通過實施低技術規格拚命限製成本。
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3. The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.
3個月的限期截至6月中旬。
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4. He was nearly three times over the drink drive limit.
他超過醉酒駕駛規定標準快三倍了。
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5. A speed limit of 30 mph was introduced in built-up areas.