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

• All you need to know is that you need to escape your confinement.
  所有你需要知道的是，你需要逃脱你的监禁。
• The confinement of an infection to a limited area.
  感染被限制在有限的区域中。
• 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。
• Her confinement was approaching.
  她的分娩期临近了。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She had been held in solitary confinement for four months
  她被单独关押了4个月。