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Confinement Leave Held Room Women Birth 英 Kən'faɪnmənt] 美

英语单词 confinement
英美音标 英 [kən'faɪnmənt] 美 [kən'faɪnmənt]
中文释义 n.拘禁;限制;分娩
英语例句 (1) I argue that confinement is intrinsically impractical.
(2) Instead of adding a new property to the dark particles, it exploits the inherent tendency of any quantum particle to resist confinement.
(3) Her confinement was approaching.
(4) For such an intelligent animal, this intensive confinement causes debilitating stress and boredom.
中文例句 (1) 我觉得限制手段本质上是不牢靠的。
(2) 它不在暗粒子身上添加新的性质,反而剔除任何量子粒子与生俱来的特性,以减少限制。
(3) 她的分娩期临近了。
(4) 这种高密度的分娩,导致了母猪身心极度的疲惫和压力。
vocabulary简明 If you're dealing with confinement to a jail cell, or your classroom, or the broom closet, you're stuck there and you can't leave. Confinement means you're being held and you can't move freely.
vocabulary扩展 Confinement doesn't have to be punishment. If you've got a contagious disease, your doctor may recommend confinement to your hospital room. Puppies sometimes prefer confinement in a crate to sleeping in an open room. You may also come across an old-fashioned use of the word confinement, referring to a woman in childbirth, which goes back to when women retired to their rooms to give birth and recuperate. Confinement contains the Latin root finis, "end, limit” — confinement certainly is limiting.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]监禁;关押;禁闭 Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
  • She had been held in solitary confinement for four months...

    她被单独关押了4个月。

  • 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。

2
[N-VAR 可变名词]分娩;生产 A woman's confinement is the period of time just before and during which she gives birth to a child.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • 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。

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