purview

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The enacting part of a statute.
  2. The scope of a statute.
  3. Scope or range of interest or control.
    — Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?
  4. Range of understanding.
    — Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.

词形变化

purviews plural

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From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from Old French porveü (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō (see provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.
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