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

• And then the following proposals were advanced: 1.Vehicle confinement.
  同时提出了以下建议：1.限制在用车使用。
• 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。
• The invariance of μ is the basis for one of the primary schemes for plasma confinement.
  μ的不变性是等离子体约束的主要方案的依据之一。
• 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。
• She had been held in solitary confinement for four months
  她被单独关押了4个月。
• The design uses magnetic mirror confinement to control the reaction.
  其设计利用了磁镜约束来控制反应过程。
• 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。
• They are in a solitary confinement in a small room with a personal guard.
  他们在1人看守的小房间里单独监禁。
• 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。
• The research on Inertial Confinement Fusion is of great importance in the field of Energy and National Defense.
  惯性约束核聚变的研究在能源及国防领域都有极其重要的意义。