precinct

詳細解釋：

pre.cinct

n.（名詞）

A subdivision or district of a city or town under the jurisdiction of or patrolled by a specific unit of its police force.
管轄區：城市或城鎮的分區或地區，由警察機構的特定單位對其進行管轄或巡邏
The police station situated in and having jurisdiction over such a district.
警察分局：位於管區內並對其行使管轄權的警察局
An election district of a city or town.
選區：城市或城鎮的選區
Often precincts
常作 precincts
A place or an enclosure marked off by definite limits, such as walls:
圍地：由明顯界限，如牆劃出的地方或圍占地：
例句：
the mysterious precincts of the old monastery.
老修道院的神秘圍地

A boundary:
範圍：
例句：
Hunting is not allowed within the precincts of the estate.
在這片領地範圍內不準打獵

precincts The neighborhood or surrounding area; the environs.
precincts 附近：相鄰或周圍地區；附近地區
precincts An area of thought or action; a province or domain:
precincts 境界領域：思想或行為的領域；範圍或領域：
例句：
.It was in these spacious precincts that Dryden`s imagination was most at home.(Mark Van Doren)
.只有在這些特殊領域內，德萊登才可以最為自由地想像.(馬克·萬·多雷恩)

來源：
Middle English precincte [a defined district or area]
中古英文 precincte [劃定的地區或區域]
from Medieval Latin praecinctum
源自 中世紀拉丁語 praecinctum
from Latin [neuter past participle of] praecingere [to encircle]
源自 拉丁語 [] praecingere的中性過去分詞 [環繞]
prae- [pre-]
prae- [前綴，表.先於….]
cingere [to gird] * see kenk-
cingere [圍繞] *參見 kenk-