(to) restrict something
hạn chế, giới hạn

Having small children tends to restrict your freedom.
Có con nhỏ làm hạn chế sự tự do.
restrict là gì?
/ris’trikt/
* ngoại động từ
- hạn chế, giới hạn, thu hẹp
- to restrict the use of alcohol: hạn chế việc dùng rượu
- to be restricted to a diet: phải ăn kiêng
restrict
- hạn chế, thu hẹp
Từ điển Anh Việt – Chuyên ngành
restrict
* kinh tế
- hạn chế (chi tiêu, sản xuất…)
* kỹ thuật
- hạn chế
- kiềm chế
toán & tin:
- hạn chế, thu hẹp
xây dựng:
- khống chế
restrict (someone or something) to (someone or something)
1. To limit or confine someone or something to a narrow or specific selection, range, or group or people or things. Often used in passive constructions.
We’re restricting applications to people who live in the Pacific Northwest.
The soldiers were restricted to just two items of food per day to make the rations last.
2. To limit or confine someone or something to a particular and limited course of action. Often used in passive constructions.
Citizens are being restricted to post and share information on websites and social media platforms that have been approved—and censored—by the government.
The new legislation restricts corporations to make financial distributions out of realized profit.
restrict someone or something to someone or something
to limit someone or something to someone or something; to confine someone or something to someone or something. (The first something may typically refer to a choice or selection.) When choosing team members, we are restricting them to people they already know. We restricted the choices to Bill, Bob, or Ted.
Các câu ví dụ:
1. The information ministry will, therefore, take technical measures to restrict Vietnamese users from accessing Windy.
Nghĩa của câu:
Do đó, Bộ Thông tin sẽ thực hiện các biện pháp kỹ thuật để hạn chế người dùng Việt Nam truy cập Windy.
2. Even as these cases are uncovered, penalties are too slack to restrict mistreatment, according to Nguyen Thi Lan from the Vietnam National Committee on Aging, who added there are more cases of elderly abuse that go unreported and unaddressed.
Nghĩa của câu:
Theo bà Nguyễn Thị Lan, Ủy ban Quốc gia về Người cao tuổi Việt Nam, ngay cả khi những trường hợp này bị phanh phui, hình phạt vẫn còn quá nhẹ để hạn chế tình trạng ngược đãi.
=to limit the movements or actions of someone, or to limit something and reduce its size or prevent it from increasing
Xét ví dụ:
- Fog restricted visibility (giải thích: sương mù hạn chế tầm nhìn)
- to restrict the use of alcohol (giải thích: hạn chế việc dùng rượu)
- to be restricted to a diet (giải thích: phải ăn kiêng)
- measures to restrict the sale of alcohol
- The government has restricted freedom of movement into and out of the country.
- Having small children really restricts your social life.