Confinement
[kən'faɪnmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them.
(noun.) the state of being confined; 'he was held in confinement'.
汉弗莱手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
(n.) Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
卡梅拉校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Restraint.[2]. Imprisonment, incarceration, captivity, duress, durance.
阿方斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I passed but one day in confinement; in the evening I was liberated, as I was told, by the order of the Earl himself. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She is depressed, but this confinement perhaps adds to her depression. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My beloved, so he wrote to me at last, my spirits and health fail me; they are worn out and exhausted, with this close confinement. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Is there anything you want that would lessen the hardship of this confinement? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- But first they resolved to sell the goods the ship, and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- She was kept in very close confinement, ma'am: people even for some years was not absolutely certain of her existence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She looked very well, and fairer, as well as less fierce, than before her confinement. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- To be sitting long after dinner, was a confinement that he could not endure. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She was, at that time, within a few months of her confinement. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I have lain in prison for security, with the place of my confinement kept a secret, lest I should be torn out of it and felled by a hundred blows. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I would rather go to some other place of confinement if I can,' said Mr. Pickwick. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- During her confinement, many arguments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- But Dr. Squills and I were thinking that our amiable friend is not in such a state as renders confinement to her bed necessary. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He applied the principles of bacteriology to the treatment of puerperal fev er, which in 1864 had rendered fatal 310 cases out of 1350 confinements in the Maternité in Paris. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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