| 正面 | 933.contain 英 [kən'teɪn]美 [kən'ten]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. con- "together" + -tain.2. => hold together, enclose.3. 共同的拿到一起.vt. 包含；控制；容纳；牵制（敌军）vi. 含有；自制 例句： 1. Our range of herbal teas contain no preservatives, colourings or artificial flavourings.我们这一系列的药草茶不含防腐剂、色素以及人工调味品。 contain 包含con-, 强调。-tain, 持，握，词源同detain, tension. containcontain: [13] Contain comes ultimately from Latin tenēre ‘hold’, source of a wide range of English words from abstain to tenor. In the case of contain the immediate ancestor, via Old French contenir, is Latin continēre ‘hold together, enclose, contain’, a compound formed with the prefix com- ‘together’. Contain still adheres fairly closely to the meaning of its Latin original, but other descendants, such as content, continent, continue, and countenance, have branched out a lot semantically.=> abstain, content, continent, continue, countenance, retain, sustain, tenorcontain (v.)late 13c., from Old French contein-, stem of contenir, from Latin continere (transitive) "to hold together, enclose," from com- "together" (see com-) + tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Related: Containable." |