limited是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有限的， 被限制的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation.
-- He was not to blame for having been born with his unbridled temperament and his somehow limited intelligence.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin signed Woestijne's name (spelling it in various interesting ways, depending on how he felt) to papers, and the Board of County Commissioners recognized Martin's limited power, but the whole thing was probably illegal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In themorning he was down-hearted again, and would have sustainedhimself by giving me all the money he had in his possession, goldand silver too, if my aunt had not interposed, and limited the giftto five shillings, which, at his earnest petition, were afterwardsincreased to ten.
-- 'Why, I want to ask, aunt, as this seems, from what I understand, tobe a limited profession, whether my entrance into it would not bevery expensive?'
-- Commission to the extent of two and ninepence in a fortnight cannot, however limited our ideas, be considered remunerative.'
-- I should have beenextremely happy, Copperfield, to have limited these charges to theactual expenditure out of pocket, but it is an irksome incident inmy professional life, that I am not at liberty to consult my ownwishes.
-- 'To think of that!Not that I mean tosay it's rigidly limited to seventy pounds a year, because I havealways contemplated making any young friend I might thusemploy, a present too.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By birth she belonged to Highbury: and when at three years old, on losing her mother, she became the property, the charge, the consolation, the fondling of her grandmoth-er and aunt, there had seemed every probability of her being permanently fixed there; of her being taught only what very limited means could command, and growing up with no advantages of connexion or improvement, to be engrafted on what nature had given her in a pleasing person, good un-derstanding, and warm-hearted, well-meaning relations.
-- Pardon me but you will be limited as to number only three at once.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.
-- These appeared to be limited to what he had already heard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- and began dancing backwards and forwards in a manner quite unparalleled within my limited experience.
-- But after I had had my new suit on some half an hour, and had gone through an immensity of posturing with Mr. Pumblechook's very limited dressing-glass, in the futile endeavor to see my legs, it seemed to fit me better.
-- Drummle didn't say much, but in his limited way (he struck me as a sulky kind of fellow) he spoke as one of the elect, and recognized Mrs. Pocket as a woman and a sister.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 71 The meaner families who have children at these nurser-ies, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their gettings, to be a portion for the child; and therefore all parents are limited in their ex-penses by the law.
-- But he may please to consider, that the caprices of woman-kind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was, and even to appear uncertain whether it might be a business, or a political party, or a profession of faith.
-- 'Your observation being limited to "little puss,"' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'and there being two little girls in question, I did not know which might be indicated by that expression.'
-- This observation must be limited exclusively to his daughter.
-- It was a hasty note to inform Louisa that Mrs. Gradgrind lay very ill. She had never been well within her daughter's knowledge; but, she had declined within the last few days, had continued sinking all through the night, and was now as nearly dead, as her limited capacity of being in any state that implied the ghost of an intention to get out of it, allowed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.
-- (Herein Mrs Plornish limited her remark to the plastering trade, and spoke without reference to the Circumlocution Office and the Barnacle Family.)
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