confinement

Compared meaning: childbirth (noun).

比较义项：分娩（名词）。

• labor

  The everyday medical term for the physical process of giving birth, especially the contractions and delivery; appears in set phrases such as 'in labor' and 'labor pains'.

  分娩这一过程的日常医学用语，尤指宫缩和生产本身；常见于固定搭配，如“in labor”（临产中）和“labor pains”（阵痛）。

  She was in labor for nearly ten hours before the baby was born.

  她临产将近十个小时，孩子才出生。

• confinement 本词

  An old-fashioned or literary word for the period of time around childbirth, before and after delivery; rarely used in modern medical speech.

  一个较为老式或文学化的说法，指分娩前后的这段时期；现代医学口语中很少使用。

  In earlier times, women often spent their confinement resting quietly at home.

  在从前，产妇常常在产期安静地在家休养。

Both can mean childbirth. Labor is the everyday medical term for the process of giving birth, as in 'in labor'. Confinement is an old-fashioned, literary word for the time around childbirth, rarely used today. This does not cover labor meaning work, or confinement meaning imprisonment.

这两个词都能指分娩，但语域和侧重点不同：labor 是常见的日常医学用语，强调分娩这一生理过程本身；confinement 是较为老式或文学化的说法，泛指分娩前后的这段时期，现代医学口语中很少使用。这里不比较 labor 的“劳动、劳工”义，也不比较 confinement 的“监禁、局限”义。