contain的形容词

1. 含有，包含，包括，装有，能盛，能装，装得下
2. 能容纳
3. 等于，相当于
4. 忍耐
5. 【数】除尽，可被...除尽，整除
6. 夹（角）
7. 包围（图形）
8. 抑制，控制，克制（自己的感情），克制（自己），自制
9. 遏制（…的势力、扩张、影响），防止...蔓延
10. 牵制，钳制

1. vt. 包含; 容纳 hold; have within itself
2. vt. 控制,抑制 hold back; keep under control or within limits

1.装有;容纳
If something such as a box, bag, room, or placecontains things, those things are inside it.

e.g. The bag contained a Christmas card...
这个包里装着一张圣诞卡。
e.g. Factory shopscontain a wide range of cheap furnishings...
工厂车间里陈设着种类繁多的廉价家具。

2.包含;含有
If a substancecontains something, that thing is a part of it.

contain的解释

e.g. Greek yogurt contains much less fat than double cream...
希腊酸奶比高脂浓奶油所含脂肪要少得多。
e.g. Many cars run on petrol which contains lead.
很多车使用含铅汽油。

3.(著作、讲话或电影中)包括，包含
If writing, speech, or filmcontains particular information, ideas, or images, it includes them.

contain

e.g. This sheet contained a list of problems a patient might like to raise with the doctor...
这张单子列出了病人可能会向医生提出的一系列问题。
e.g. The two discs alsocontain two of Britten's lesser-known song-cycles.
这两张唱片还包含了布里顿两首不甚知名的声乐套曲。

4.(团体或组织中)有，包括
If a group or organizationcontains a certain number of people, those are the people that are in it.

contain的近义词

e.g. The committee contains 11 Democrats and nine Republicans.
这个委员会包括11名民主党人和9名共和党人。

5.控制;遏制;防止…蔓延
If youcontain something, you control it and prevent it from spreading or increasing.

e.g. More than a hundred firemen are still trying tocontain the fire at the plant...
上百名消防队员仍在试图控制工厂的火势。
e.g. The city authorities said the curfew had contained the violence.
市称宵禁遏制住了暴力事件。

6.控制，抑制(感情)
If you cannotcontain a feeling such as excitement or anger, or if you cannotcontain yourself, you cannot prevent yourself from showing your feelings.

e.g. But he was bursting with curiosity, and one day he just couldn'tcontain himself. 'What are you going to do?' he asked...
但他满心好奇，一天，他真的忍不住了。“你打算做什么？”他问道。
e.g. Evans could barelycontain his delight: 'I'm so proud of her,' he said.
埃文斯喜不自禁：“我真为她骄傲。”他说。

7. see also: self-contained

contain with (v.+prep.)

使(自己)抑制住 control (oneself) because of (a good feeling such as joy)
contain oneself with sth

She could scarcely contain herself with delight when she opened the parcel.

当她打开这个包裹的时候,她简直抑制不住自己兴奋的心情。

When he was told the story for the second time, he could not contain himself with anger.

当人们第二次把这件事告诉他时,他不禁火冒三丈。

查找图书

A：Excuse me. Can you tell me how to find some books on social science?
请问，能告诉我怎样查找社会科学书籍吗？

B：Sure. You see all these little drawers here and all the way around the walls?
当然。你看到靠墙排列的这一个个小抽屉了吗？

A：Yes.
看见了。

B：These drawerscontain cards describing every book in our library. Together they constitute the library’s “card catalog”.You can see that each drawer runs from one part of the alphabet to another. For example, this drawer goes from SCA to SCM.
这些抽屉里装着这本图书馆所有图书的卡片，它们构成了图书馆的“卡片目录”。你可以看出每只抽屉都是从字母表中的一部分排到另一部分。比如说这只抽屉，就是从SCA 排到SCM。

contain

A：So if I’m looking for a look called A History of Western Society, I’d just look under “A”.
这么说，如果我要找一本《西方社会史》的话，就在“A”的分类下找。

B：No. You’d look under “W”. The articles “a” and “the” don’t count in our alphabetization, and card are generally omitted for extremely common words and phrases such as “history of”, “introduction to”, “story of” and so forth.
不。应该“W”下找。冠词“a”和“the”不包括在字母排列中。一般来说，目录卡片往往省略一些特别常用的词和词组。如“history of”，“introduction to”，“story of”等等。

contain的意思

A：What if I don’t know the title of the book?
如果不知道书名怎么办？

B：When you can look under the author’s name.
那你可以在作者名下找。

A：Could you give me an example?
能举个例子吗？

B：Suppose you want to find a book by your professor, William Smith. You’d look under SMITH and then WILLIAM. Since that’s a very common name, you may have to go through several “William Smith” until you come to the one who wrote book on the subject you’re interested in.
假如你要找一本你的导师威廉?史密斯教授写的书，你可以在SMITH 栏下寻找，由于William Smith 是一个很常见的姓名，你可能得查阅很多William Smith 才能找到你所感兴趣的书的那位William Smith。

contain, hold

这两个词都有“容纳”的意思。其区别在于:contain指实际所包含的部分,而hold强调能包含的能力。例如:

The bookcase contains fifty volumes but holds a hundred.这书柜装有50册书,但它能装下100册。

A bookshelf held 100 books perhaps only contains 50 ones.一个可容纳100本书的书架可能只装50本书。

contain，include，embrace，involve，comprehend，hold，comprise

这些动词均含有“包括，包含”之意。

contain普通用词，所涉及的物体常常是其组成部分或内容。强调包容关系。既可指具体有形的东西，也可指抽象无形的东西。

include普通用词，指一整体包含着各的部分，也指某东西包含另一东西的某一部分。

embrace正式用词，指把某事物纳入整个之中。

involve指包含因整体的性质决定的成分或结果。所包括的往往是无形的，不可触知的东西，多用作引申。

comprehend正式用词，指包含在整体范围以内。

hold常和contain换用。指能够容纳或有足够的容纳量。强调包容能力。

comprise书面用词，暗指一个整体包括不同部分所组成，可与include交换使用。