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boundary 、border、frontier的區別和用法

區別和用法:

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

1.

boundary 指地圖上明確的界限,漢語壹般說“邊界線”,如:

the boundary between France and Germany

2.

border 指沿邊界線延伸的地區,漢語壹般說“邊境”,如:

the Franco-German border

3.

frontier 的意思是“靠外國的邊界”

The soldiers guarded the frontiers of the country.

Sweden has frontiers with Norway and Finland.

總結:

border和frontier均可用來指將兩國分開的界限,但意思不完全相同。

frontier常指有防衛的邊界,設有護照、簽證和海關檢查。

如:

The frontier is protected by minefields and an electric fence.

邊境由雷區和電網防護。

border是較壹般性的詞,用來指國家或州之間的任何分界,也可以指某事物的“邊緣,邊際”

如:

We camped on the border of a lake.

我們在河邊紮下營帳。

We lived ten miles from the Russia border.

我們住在俄羅斯邊界10英裏處。

boundary用來說比較小的單位(如:farms,towns,parishes或counties)的分界。

The boundary between the farms follows the line of the river.

這兩個農場以河為界。