词汇 | fence somebody/something ↔ in |
释义 | fence somebody/something ↔ infence somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v a) TBCto surround a place with a fence 用栅栏[篱笆]围住 The yard was fenced in to keep out wolves. 院子用篱笆围起防止狼进来。 b) ESCAPEto make someone feel that they cannot leave a place or do what they want 限制〔某人〕的自由,束缚〔某人〕 Young mothers often feel fenced in at home. 年轻母亲往往感觉自己被束缚在家里。 Examples from the Corpus fence in• One man, wearing a red cap and with a knife in his mouth, was already on top of the fence.• The entire complex is surrounded by 10-foot - high chain-link fencing.• Why did the mind and the heart have to be such antagonists, the one trying to fence the other in?• The chain-link fence swerved in, and this time I hit the brakes hard.• Her father left things with her for mending, like a sheep leaves its wool on a fence, in passing.• There was a lovely picture of him on telly last night peering woefully over the fence dressed in snazzy suit.• The rink would not be fenced off in the families-only section and would be open for use by adults.• A lime-green chameleon, stretching from fence to shrub in torpid motion, beguiled us. → fence somebody/something ↔ in at fence2(1) |
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