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辨析:border, boundary, frontier

我只講意思相近的解釋。

frontier - 未開拓領域的邊界線,示意未開發的疆土。

border - 兩區或兩國之間的界線,即:邊界。

boundary - 有限制性意義的界線,延伸為邊界線。字根是bound,圍繞的意思。

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boundary, border, frontier, limit

These nouns all denote a line or an area separating one piece of territory from another. A

所有這些名詞都指分隔壹地域與另壹地域的線或地區。

boundary is a limiting line:

boundary 是限制線:

A stone wall marked the boundary between the two farms. A

石墻是兩個農場的分界線。

border is a line that separates political entities:

Border 是將政治實體分離的界限:

Customs officers inspected our luggage when we crossed the border.

當我們過境時海關官員檢查了我們的行李。

Frontier denotes the part of a country that faces toward or fronts an adjoining country:

Frontier 意指壹國中朝向或面對鄰國的部分:

“that long [Canadian] frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations” (Winston S. Churchill).

“那條 自大西洋至太平洋的長邊界線, 僅出於鄰國的尊敬和高尚義務守護著” (溫斯頓·S·丘吉爾)。

Limit denotes a boundary that surrounds an area:

Limit 意指包圍壹地區的界線:

Cars cannot exceed 35 miles per hour within city limits.

在市區線以內車速不能超過每小時35英裏