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

• Why This Is a Mistake: Pets, like people, don't thrive in solitary confinement.
  为什么这是一个错误：宠物和人一样单独拘禁起来无法茁壮成长。
• 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 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）。
• 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。
• 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 condition of being physically and legally free from confinement, servitude, or forced labor.
  自由从囚禁、奴役或强制劳动中解放出来，获得身体上和法律上自由的状况。
• 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 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。
• At the very least, you might be irritated with rules or have a sense of confinement.
  至少，你可能对规定很恼火，或者有种被限制的感觉。
• 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。