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bounds
phrase[ plural ]
legal or social limits: （法律或社会的）界限;限制;限定区域
The committee felt that newspaper coverage of the murder went beyond reasonable bounds.委员会觉得报纸对谋杀案的报道超出了正常的范围。
beyond the bounds ofWhat you did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
The assertion was, to my mind, well beyond the bounds of what is acceptable or proper.
know no boundsHis desire for political power apparently knows no bounds (= seems to have no limits).
The president insisted that Congress had overstepped its bounds.
See also
boundnoun(LIMIT)
bounds | American Dictionary
bounds
plural noun
us/bɑʊnz/
limits of an activity or behavior:
His desire for political power apparently knows no bounds.
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