confinement

英 [kənˈfaɪnmənt]

美 [kənˈfaɪnmənt]

n.  禁闭; 监禁; 关押; 分娩; 产期

复数：confinements　

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牛津词典

noun

• 禁闭；监禁；关押
  the state of being forced to stay in a closed space, prison, etc., the act of putting sb there
  1. her confinement to a wheelchair
     半步离不开轮椅对她的束缚
  2. years of confinement as a political prisoner
     作为政治犯被监禁的岁月
• 分娩；产期
  the time when a woman gives birth to a baby
  1. the expected date of confinement
     预产期
  2. a hospital/home confinement
     在医院 / 家中分娩

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 监禁;关押;禁闭
  Confinementis the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
  1. She had been held in solitary confinement for four months...
     她被单独关押了4个月。
  2. He'd obviously kept himself fit despite his years of confinement.
     显然，尽管监禁多年，他依旧保持着身体健康。
• N-VAR 分娩;生产
  A woman'sconfinementis the period of time just before and during which she gives birth to a child.
  1. There has been a movement to support women seeking home confinement.
     一场支持女性在家分娩的运动一直在进行。

英英释义

noun

• the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
• the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
  1. the restriction of the infection to a focal area
  Synonym:restriction
• the state of being confined
  1. he was held in confinement
• concluding state of pregnancy
  1. she was in labor for six hours
  Synonym:parturiencylaborlabourlying-intravailchildbed

双语例句

• The confinement of an infection to a limited area.
  感染被限制在有限的区域中。
• As for rest and confinement should be the same.
  至于休养，应该和坐月子是一样的。
• The stability of large-scale magnetohydrodynamic ( MHD) modes is crucial to themagnetic confinement of toroidal plasmas.
  大尺度磁流体（MHD）模式的稳定性研究对环形等离子体磁约束是至关重要的。
• The principle of the coded imaging and its decoding in inertial confinement fusion is described simply in this paper.
  描述了惯性约束聚变实验中编码成像原理及解码方法。
• It has all the ingredients to hold a person's tormented soul: misery, confinement and fear.
  这里有着所有能让灵魂受尽折磨的东西：痛苦，监禁和恐惧。
• The preparation and the quantum confinement effects of amorphous St3N4 nanoparticles are reported in this paper.
  本文报道了非晶氨化硅纳米粒子的制备及量子限制效应。
• Her confinement was approaching.
  她的分娩期临近了。
• Quark confinement demonstrates the equivalence of mass and energy discovered by Einstein.
  夸克的产生被爱因斯坦证明了质量与能量的守恒。
• After the happy freedom of six months the confinement of body and soul would be doubly intolerable to her.
  过了6个月幸福自由的日子之后，肉体和精神的桎梏将使她加倍地痛苦。
• Finally, the research and development course of magnetic confinement fusion in China are presented.
  对我国磁约束核聚变的研究发展历程做了简要的回顾。