penning

基本解釋

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken time out of his busy schedule to indulge his imagination by penning a children's book featuring his family pets, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
澳大利亞政府一名女發(fā)言人上周日稱，縂理陸尅文在繁忙的公務(wù)之外還馳騁想象力，寫了一本以家中寵物爲(wèi)主角的兒童讀物。
To detect such a tiny force, the NIST team confined about 60 ultra-cold beryllium ions in a device called a Penning trap, which uses magnetic and electric fields to imprison charged particles.
爲(wèi)了測出如此微小的力，國家標(biāo)準(zhǔn)和技術(shù)學(xué)會(huì)的團(tuán)隊(duì)將大約60個(gè)超冷鈹離子裝在一個(gè)叫做“潘甯陷阱”的裝置中，該裝置是利用磁場和電場禁錮帶電粒子的。
The penning of that document was overseen by the defence secretary, Robert Gates, who will remain in charge of defence policy under Barack Obama.
該策略是在國防部長羅伯特?蓋茨的監(jiān)督下撰寫的，而在奧巴馬的新一屆政府班子中，蓋茨仍然會(huì)擔(dān)任國防政策的制訂工作。

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A pen is a long thin object which you use to write in ink.
If someone pens a letter, article, or book, they write it.
A pen is a small area with a fence around it in which farm animals are kept for a short time.
If people or animals are penned somewhere or are penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
a female swan
penitentiary &rarrshort for penitentiary