If there is scope for a particular kind of behaviour or activity, people have the opportunity to behave in this way or do that activity.
He believed in giving his staff scope for initiative.
他赞成给员工发挥主动性的机会。
The scope of an activity, topic, or piece of work is the whole area which it deals with or includes.
scale , extent , range
Mr Dobson promised to widen the organization's scope of activity.
多布森先生答应扩大该组织的活动范围。
the scope of a novel.
一部小说涉及的范围。