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UG先生ご指名いただきありがとうございます。台湾で起きた，ガス爆発に関する記事です。市街地で突然発生したこともあり，多くの犠牲者を出しました。

この文章で使われている"contain"を『Wisdom英和辞典第三版（三省堂）』で調べると，「自制した，落ち着いた，穏やかな」などという意味がありました。ODでは"Control or restrain"や"Prevent (a severe problem) from spreading or intensifying"が相当すると思います。つまり，ガス爆発が起きた，翌日には火災は「沈静化」されつつあるという意味で使われていると重います。（Ume）

Dozens dead as Taiwan gas blasts tear p downtown streets
Firefighters from neighboring cities rushed to Kaohsiung to help battle several fires, which had been mostly contained by Friday morning.
At least 25 people were killed, including four firefighters. Twenty-two emergency workers were among 267 people injured, officials said. A number of people were still missing, including a senior fire official who went to investigate reports of a gas leak.
As daylight broke the extent of the damage became clear, with wrecked cars and motorcycles strewn across the cratered streets.
Dave Flynn, an English expatriate who has lived in the city for several years, visited the site of the explosions Friday morning. He told CNN that a huge trench had been gouged along the length of a main thoroughfare for several kilometers, and the pavement had been thrown to the side of the road, damaging vehicles.
"There were police cordons on the major intersections but they were just stopping vehicles," he said. "Most of the side streets, you could just walk into the area and it was full of pedestrians checking out what had happened. I saw people fixing their own houses, and I saw the army arrive, some trucks to clean up some of the (wrecked) cars."
Schools and offices in the Cianjhen district, as well as the neighboring Lingya District, were closed on Friday to facilitate rescue efforts, Mayor Chen Chu told reporters. Several schools and a cultural center are being used as emergency shelters.
Authorities suspect ethylene, propane or butane in the explosions. There are several petrochemical factories in the region.
The government called up hundreds of soldiers to assist in search and rescue efforts.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/31/world/asia/taiwan-explosions/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
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