a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully;"containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States" foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
the act of containing; keeping something from spreading;"the containment of the AIDS epidemic" "the containment of the rebellion"
中英词源
containment 遏制Www.wENTIYI.cOm
来自contain, 持，握，包含。
containment (n.)
1650s, "action or fact of containing," from contain + -ment. As an international policy of the West vs. the Soviet Union, recorded from 1947.
词态变化
权威造句
1. the containment of the epidemic
对流行病的控制
来自《权威词典》
2. Your list might include such things as cost containment, quality, or customer satisfaction.
你的清单上应列有诸如成本控制 、 产品质量 、 客户满意程度等内容.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Fire crews are hoping they can achieve full containment of the fire before the winds pick up.
消防队员希望趁着风还没有起来将火势完全控制住。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Insularity and self - containment, it is argued, go hand in hand.
他们争论说, 心胸狭窄和 自我 封闭是并存的.
来自新概念英语第四册
5. Such laboratories are designed and equipped for physical containment and are posted with biohazard warning symbols.
