confinement
confinement 英 [kənˈfaɪnmənt] 美 [kənˈfaɪnmənt]
n. 限制；监禁；分娩
名词复数:confinements
- 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.
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- n. 限制；监禁；分娩
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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。
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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。
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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。
- confinement (n.) 1620s, "state of being confined; any restraint by force, necessity, or obstacle," from French confinement (16c.; the Old French word was confinacion), from confiner "to border; to shut up, enclose" (see confine).
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