• vt. 包含；控制；容纳；牵制（敌军）
• vi. 含有；自制

con-, 强调。-tain, 持，握，词源同detain, tension.

contain

contain: [13] Contain comes ultimately from Latin tenēre ‘hold’, source of a wide range of English words from abstain to tenor. In the case of contain the immediate ancestor, via Old French contenir, is Latin continēre ‘hold together, enclose, contain’, a compound formed with the prefix com- ‘together’. Contain still adheres fairly closely to the meaning of its Latin original, but other descendants, such as content, continent, continue, and countenance, have branched out a lot semantically.
=> abstain, content, continent, continue, countenance, retain, sustain, tenor

contain (v.)

late 13c., from Old French contein-, stem of contenir, from Latin continere (transitive) "to hold together, enclose," from com- "together" (see com-) + tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Related: Containable.

1. Our range of herbal teas contain no preservatives, colourings or artificial flavourings.

我们这一系列的药草茶不含防腐剂、色素以及人工调味品。

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2. The offspring contain a mixture of the genetic blueprint of each parent.

子女身上遗传了父母双方的基因型板。

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3. She bought a travel-bag large enough to contain the film canisters.

她买了一只能装得下那些胶卷筒的旅行包。

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4. Seven fire brigades were deployed to contain the blaze.

7支消防队被派来控制火势。

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5. The problem was that the exhaust gases contain many toxins.

问题在于废气中含有很多毒素。

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