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box someone/something in
phrasal verb with boxverbuk /bɒks/ us /bɑːks/
to move so close to someone or something that the person or thing cannot move away: 把…困住
When I got back to my car, I found it had been boxed in by a lorry.回来时发现我的车被一辆卡车堵在里面了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
beleaguer
beleaguered
beset
border
circumscribe
dunk
enclosure
fence something off
flooding
gather
gift wrap
gift-wrapped
girdle
siege
soak
steep
steep something/someone in something
submersion
swaddle
swamp
box someone in
phrasal verb with boxverbuk /bɒks/ us /bɑːks/
to prevent someone from doing what they want to do: 限制…，约束…
She did not want to send her son to a school where he would be boxed in by so many rules and regulations.她不想把儿子送到一所被规章制度束手束脚的学校。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
chain
cripplingly
crowd
curb
curtail
curtailment
keep (herself) to herselfidiom
limit
limitation
limitative
limiting
suffocatingly
tempered
tie someone down
tie someone up
uncrippled
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