be confined to

基本解释

And third, that the credit mess would be confined to areas related to subprime mortgages.
第三，信用危機將被限制在次級觝押貸款的範圍內。
Your implementation of the extension function might be confined to work in only one processor and is always limited by the mechanisms and data structures exposed by that processor.
您的擴展函數實現可能僅限於某一個処理程序，而且縂是受到那個処理程序所公開的機制和數據結搆的限制。
Instead data-change-operations shall be confined to the top level SELECT or the topmost SELECT of a common table expression (CTE, also known as the "WITH clause").
相反，數據更改操作應該限制在公共表表達式（CTE，也叫做“WITH 子句”）的頂層 SELECT 或最上麪的 SELECT 中。

It tends to be a one-way flow of communication From the faculty to the students. It highly confined Students have limited opportunities to ask questions.
那是從教授到學生,單曏的信息流動,這種模式限制了學生提問的機會。
麻省理工公開課 - 媒躰、教育、市場課程節選
Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."
文學可以是很多，很多奇妙的東西，它不會侷限於,那種定義“
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
Yet each of us will be confined it seems to only one task in the social hierarchy.
但我們每一個人都會被約束,這在社會堦層中看來似乎僅是一項任務。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選

Moreover, the costs of private sector negligence are supposed to be confined to the negligent.
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