confinement

n. 限制；监禁；分娩

n.

监禁，关押；分娩，生产；限制，约束；

变形

复数：confinements

英英释义

confinement[ kən'fainmənt ]

n.

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child

同义词：parturiencylaborlabourlying-intravailchildbed

the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

the state of being confined

"he was held in confinement"

词组短语

inertial confinement惯性约束

solitary confinement单独拘禁（等于solitary）

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“限制，局限”的意思，其区别是：

confinementn.限制，囚禁(于某地或某种境地)。

The prisoner was sentenced to three months' solitary confinement.那犯人被判处单独监禁三个月。

confinement, limitation, restraint

concentratev.集中，集中精力(后接on，宾语可以是具体或抽象的东西)；浓缩，压缩。

During exams, students concentrate hard on answering the questions.考试期间，同学们集中精力回答问题。

restraintn.克制，抑制；约束措施。

Even though the mother was very angry, she acted with restraint and didn't yell at her child.即使母亲很生气，她仍克制自己没有向孩子大吼。

focusv.集中(于某事物)；将(注意力等)集中于……(后接on，宾语一般不是具体的东西)。

Please focus your minds on the following problem.请集中考虑以下问题。

limitationn.限制，局限；(能力的)缺点，弱点。

That employee has limitations on what work he can do.那个雇员能做的工作有限。

这组词都有“限制，局限”的意思，其区别是：

confinementn.限制，囚禁(于某地或某种境地)。

The prisoner was sentenced to three months' solitary confinement.那犯人被判处单独监禁三个月。

restraintn.克制，抑制；约束措施。

Even though the mother was very angry, she acted with restraint and didn't yell at her child.即使母亲很生气，她仍克制自己没有向孩子大吼。

limitationn.限制，局限；(能力的)缺点，弱点。

That employee has limitations on what work he can do.那个雇员能做的工作有限。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it.
那并不是生理的虚弱引起的昏厥，然而和拘禁及缺少饮食一定大有关系。

I argue that confinement is intrinsically impractical.
我觉得限制手段本质上是不牢靠的。

Instead of adding a new property to the dark particles, it exploits the inherent tendency of any quantum particle to resist confinement.
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。

Her confinement was approaching.
她的分娩期临近了。

For such an intelligent animal, this intensive confinement causes debilitating stress and boredom.
这种高密度的分娩，导致了母猪身心极度的疲惫和压力。

权威例句

confinement (n.)

1590s, from French confinement (16c.; the Old French word was confinacion), from confiner (see confine). As a euphemism for "childbed" it dates from 1774 (the Middle English expression was Our Lady's bands).

1. In terms of physical location, there was still this confinement in space.

说到人所处的位置，其实还是限制在一定的空间中。

2. Our guide told him that such confinement would not be necessary but that he should keep a safe distance from our rafts.

我们的向导告诉他，这种限制就不必了，只要他能同我们的木筏保持一段安全距离就行。

3. One of his exchanges cost him 12 days in solitary confinement, but more recently, his articles have been widely published without any immediate repercussions.

有一次交流，使他付出了被独自监禁12天的代价，但最近，他的文章被广泛出版而并未遭遇到任何直接的严重后果。

4. They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.

他们通过折磨、限制和残酷对待数不尽的动物来获利，并设法隐匿他们的行径。

5. Solitary confinement does not involve any direct physical deprivation.

单独监禁不涉及任何直接的物质剥夺。

6. He can no longer do so—the Punjab police’s decision to free Mr Sharif from confinement was very likely in response to an army command.

不过现在他却不需要再这样做了，旁遮普当地警方决定释放仍在监禁中的谢里夫，当作是对军队命令的回应。

7. Then, as Downey recalls, “the axe fell, ” and he and Fecteau were suddenly removed into solitary confinement.

唐尼回忆说，随后“斧头砍了下来”，他和费克图突然又被押走，改成单独监禁。

8. Even through the years of solitary confinement, each man drew comfort from the thought of his nearby comrade.

即使他们被单独监禁多年，“自己的同志就在不远处”这样的想法，总是会让他们得到安慰。

9. South African singer Larry Joe found in solitary confinement the peace of mind he needed to develop his talent.

南非歌手拉里•乔在单独监禁时通过开发自身才能从而使自己内心得以平静，而这正是他所需要的。

10. Despite 16 years in solitary confinement, Rittenberg chose to stay in China when released and was reinstated in official communist circles.

尽管被单独监禁了16年，李敦白在被释放后仍然选择留在中国，并在中共官方复职。

11. The other major stressor leading to suicide or mental breakdown in solitary confinement is the near total lack of contact with loved ones and caring others.

单独监禁引发的另外一个导致自杀或者精神崩溃的压力是：几乎和亲人没有联系，没人关心。

12. In 1875 her eldest and only surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln, arranged for a hearing on her sanity, which resulted in her confinement for several months in a private sanatorium in Batavia, Illinois.

1875年，她的长子，也是唯一一位健在的儿子，罗伯特·托德·林肯，安排她她参加关于她精神健全的听证会，结果她被安顿在伊利诺斯州巴达维亚一家私人疗养院，限制出行达数月。

13. The couple had spent 388 days in captivity, some in solitary confinement and most in makeshift desert camps, guarded by drug-addled, illiterate young men toting AK47s.

这对夫妇被囚禁了388天，有时是单独监禁，但大多数时间关在沙漠的临时帐篷中，被一些手持AK47，目不识丁，毒瘾缠身的年轻人看守。

14. It held literally all of his belongings after 22 years in confinement. All I remember from this suitcase today is the smell of the prison’s humidity that his clothes exuded when I opened it.

22年的人身限制留下的所有财产，至今我对小提箱的记忆就是当我打开箱子时父亲衣物所散发出那种监狱潮湿的味道。

15. In one of the worst examples of injustice in legal history; a paperwork error allowed Sagawa to simply check himself out of a mental institution after a little more than a year of confinement.

在这场司法史上最不公正的案件中，一项文书工作的失误使得佐川在仅仅一年多的监禁后离开精神病院。

16. The structure of the New Safe Confinement is carbon steel, protected by inner and outer layers of stainless steel cladding.

新安全限制装置的建筑结构是碳钢，通过给内外层镀上不锈钢来保护它。

17. Edgar Leopold Kranz Jr., of Minot, N.D., who received 24 months of confinement and a pay reduction for cocaine use, adultery and bouncing checks.

北达科他州的埃德加.利奥波德因滥用卡可因,通奸以及逃避检查被判以24个月监禁及

18. CONFINEMENT to a wheelchair is not merely annoying and degrading. It is positively bad for the health.

被限制在轮椅上不仅让人郁闷，有辱尊严，而且对健康非常不利。

19. CONFINEMENT to a wheelchair is not merely annoying and degrading. It is positively bad for the health.

被限制在轮椅上不仅让人郁闷，有辱尊严，而且对健康非常不利。