英语词汇limit 的词组、短语、固定搭配翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

词组

limit

释义

limit
noun
the maximum prison sentence for a given offence US

— Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 146, 1949

▶ go the limit
to have sexual intercourse US, 1922

Several times then, she had nearly gone the limit, as they used to call it, but something had always saved her–once a campus policeman but mostly the boy himself, who had scruples. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 256, 1960
— Ken “Naz” Young, Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang, p. 72, 1993

▶ the limit
the degree of anything that is the extreme (or beyond) of what you are prepared to tolerate US, 1904
It may be “the dizzy limit”, “the giddy limit” or “just about the fucking limit”.▶ the sky’s the limit
the possibilities of something are boundless UK, 1933

“The sky’s the limit now,” said the Swedish goalkeeper Magnus Hedman[.] — The Guardian, 13 June 2002

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