1. For collectors are not confined to any one country.
    因为收藏家是不分国籍的。

2. The mind, we now know, is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body's universe of cells.
    我们现在知道，思想活动并不局限在脑部，而是遍布全身范围的细胞中。

3. He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours.
    他经历了一次漫长而又难受的旅程，因为他在那木箱里闷了18个多小时。

4. And to ensure the populations were "pure", the study was confined to groups that were in their present locations as of 1492, before the first major movements from Europe began — in effect, a genetic photo of the world when Columbus sailed f
    为了确保种群的"纯正"，这项研究将对象限定于其目前的生活区域仍与1492年以来相同的那些群体，即在来自欧洲最初的大规模迁移之前。这实际上就是一幅真实的哥伦布驶向美洲时期的世界人口基因分布图。

5. Our knowledge of the oceans a hundred years ago was confined to the two-dimensional shape of the sea surface and the hazards of navigation presented by the irregularities in depth of the shallow water close to the land.
    100年前，我们只知道海洋是二维平面形的，以及靠近陆地浅水区的深浅不一能给航行带来危险。