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And third, that the credit mess would be confined to areas related to subprime mortgages.
第三，信用危机将被限制在次级抵押贷款的范围内。
Your implementation of the extension function might be confined to work in only one processor and is always limited by the mechanisms and data structures exposed by that processor.
您的扩展函数实现可能仅限于某一个处理程序，而且总是受到那个处理程序所公开的机制和数据结构的限制。
Instead data-change-operations shall be confined to the top level SELECT or the topmost SELECT of a common table expression (CTE, also known as the "WITH clause").
相反，数据更改操作应该限制在公共表表达式（CTE，也叫做“WITH 子句”）的顶层 SELECT 或最上面的 SELECT 中。

It tends to be a one-way flow of communication From the faculty to the students. It highly confined Students have limited opportunities to ask questions.
那是从教授到学生,单向的信息流动,这种模式限制了学生提问的机会。
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Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."
文学可以是很多，很多奇妙的东西，它不会局限于,那种定义“
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Yet each of us will be confined it seems to only one task in the social hierarchy.
但我们每一个人都会被约束,这在社会阶层中看来似乎仅是一项任务。
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Moreover, the costs of private sector negligence are supposed to be confined to the negligent.
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