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

• She's still in confinement.
  她还没出月子。
• 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 beam sampling grating ( BSG) used in the inertial confinement fusion system is designed.
  设计了用于惯性约束核聚变系统的取样光栅。
• This paper analyzes a good many of confinement factors that exist in the development of digital library e-commerce in china, and offers some solutions to these problems.
  摘要本文对我国数字图书馆电子商务发展过程中存在的诸多制约因素进行了系统的分析，并针对这些问题提出了相应的对策。
• Last night he was being held in solitary confinement in Douglas jail.
  昨晚他被单独监禁在道格拉斯的监狱里。
• 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。
• 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 prisoner was sentenced to three months 'solitary confinement, ie kept apart from other prisoners.
  那犯人被判处单独监禁叁个月（与其他犯人隔离）。
• It is found that the transition energy of acceptors increases with the enhancement of quantum confinement.
  研究发现，随着量子限制效应的增强，受主跃迁能量会增加。
• 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。