Narrowness

(noun.) the property of being narrow; having little width; 'the narrowness of the road'.

(noun.) a restriction of range or scope; 'the problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students'; 'the attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus'; 'frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons'.

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• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In small towns and country villages, on account of the narrowness of the market, trade cannot always be extended as stock extends. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I wasand with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It shows the sciences in their interrelations, and saves the student from narrowness and premature specialization. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The smallness of the rooms above and below, indeed, and the narrowness of the passage and staircase, struck her beyond her imagination. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Men are not able radically to cure, either in themselves or others, that narrowness of soul, which makes them prefer the present to the remote. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The narrowness of American political issues is a fixation upon instruments. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The narrowness of the Isthmus naturally suggested the cutting of a waterway through it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It ends, in spite of your confounded English narrowness and prejudice, in my being perfectly happy and comfortable. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Benjamin still had a hankering for the sea, but he recognized in the printing-office and access to books other means of escape from the narrowness of the Boston of 1720. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Oh-- she exclaimed, as if terrified by the narrowness of their escape. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• They had been taught to shun all forms of narrowness and intolerance. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The narrowness of view, which to ourselves appears so singular, was to him natural, if not unavoidable. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They are never well, and their minds and views shrink to wondrous narrowness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• These qualities compensate, in some measure, for the narrowness of available opportunities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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