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。

contain是什么意思

B：These drawers contain 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。

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。

contain的反义词

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。

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。

contain是什么意思

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。

1. 装有;容纳
    If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains 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 shops contain 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 substance contains 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 film contains particular information, ideas, or images, it includes them.

    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 also contain 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 organization contains a certain number of people, those are the people that are in it.

    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 you contain something, you control it and prevent it from spreading or increasing.

    e.g. More than a hundred firemen are still trying to contain 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.
           市政府称宵禁遏制住了暴力事件。

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

    e.g. But he was bursting with curiosity, and one day he just couldn't contain 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 barely contain 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