•Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please!请把讨论集中在正题上！

•Please confine your use of the telephone to business calls.请注意电话仅限于办公用途。

•By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas).透过关闭受感染的农场，我们希望把疾病限制在该地区的北部。

•The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.人质被关押了那么久，以致于他们对外面的世界一时适应不了。

•We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.我们知道这种疾病不只局限于社会的某一个群体中。

•This attitude seems to be confined to the upper classes.这种态度似乎只存在于上层阶级中。