boundary 、border、frontier的区别和用法

区别和用法：

boundary， border， frontier， limit

These nouns all denote a line or an area separating one piece of territory from another. A

所有这些名词都指分隔一地域与另一地域的线或地区。

boundary? is a limiting line:

boundary? 是限制线：

A stone wall marked the boundary between the two farms. A?

石墙是两个农场的分界线。?

border? is a line that separates political entities:

Border? 是将政治实体分离的界限：

Customs officers inspected our luggage when we crossed the border.

当我们过境时海关官员检查了我们的行李。

Frontier? denotes the part of a country that faces toward or fronts an adjoining country:

Frontier? 意指一国中朝向或面对邻国的部分：

“that long [Canadian]? frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans,? guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations”? (Winston S. Churchill).

“那条 自大西洋至太平洋的长边界线， 仅出于邻国的尊敬和高尚义务守护着” （温斯顿·S·丘吉尔）。

Limit? denotes a boundary that surrounds an area:

Limit? 意指包围一地区的界线：

Cars cannot exceed 35 miles per hour within city limits.

在市区线以内车速不能超过每小时35英里

1.

boundary 指地图上明确的界限,汉语一般说“边界线”,如：

the boundary between France and Germany

2.

border 指沿边界线延伸的地区,汉语一般说“边境”,如：

the Franco-German border

3.

frontier 的意思是“靠外国的边界”

The soldiers guarded the frontiers of the country.

Sweden has frontiers with Norway and Finland.

总结：

border和frontier均可用来指将两国分开的界限，但意思不完全相同。

frontier常指有防卫的边界，设有护照、签证和海关检查。

如:

The frontier is protected by minefields and an electric fence.

边境由雷区和电网防护。

border是较一般性的词，用来指国家或州之间的任何分界，也可以指某事物的“边缘，边际”

如：

We camped on the border of a lake.

我们在河边扎下营帐。

We lived ten miles from the Russia border.

我们住在俄罗斯边界10英里处。

boundary用来说比较小的单位（如：farms,towns,parishes或counties）的分界。

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

这两个农场以河为界。