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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 |