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containment

英 [kən'teɪnm(ə)nt] 美[kən'tenmənt]
  • n. 包含;牵制;容量;密闭度;抑制, 牵制;牵制 [遏制] 政策

英英释意


1. a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully;
"containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
2. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
3. (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading;
"the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"