imprison

英 [ɪm'prɪzn] 美 [ɪm'prɪzn]

• v. 监禁；关押；束缚

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 禁锢
2. 监禁，禁闭，关押，拘禁，把...关进监狱
3. 束缚，限制，阻碍，约束
4. 藏着
5. （使）下狱
6. 关闭

英英释义

Verb:

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;

   "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
   "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
   

2. confine as if in a prison;

   "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. They don't usually imprison first offenders.
   他们通常不监禁初次犯罪的人。
2. The EU has signed a deal with Kenya to imprison captured pirates.
   欧盟已经和肯尼亚签署了关于已抓获海盗的监禁事项。
3. You can imprison my body but not my mind.
   你可以禁锢我的身体，却束缚不了我的心灵。

经典引文

• A desperate thing imprisoned in this box of thin wood.

  出自： G. K. Chesterton

• She was imprisoned for her political activities and for her advocacy of birth control.

  出自： V. Glendinning

• The inscrutable child who appears..both excluded and imprisoned, locked out and locked in.

  出自： Karl Miller

• I..am as imprisoned by my time as you were by yours.

  出自： P. Lively

词义辨析

confine，imprison，jail

• 这些动词均含“监禁”之意。
• confine指监禁或幽禁；也指任何使行动受到限制的行为。
• imprison较正式用词，多指较长时间的监禁。
• jail(英国用gaol)多指审判之间的拘禁或对罪行较轻的罪犯的监禁。

近反义词

【近义词】

• confine 限制
• jail 监牢
• incarcerate 监禁
• lock up 上锁
• put away 收拾
• detain 扣留
• intern 实习生
• lock away 将 ... 锁藏起来...
• put inside 把 ... 关入监狱...
• send down <英>开除
• cage 笼子
• sentence 句子
• capture 捕获
• shut 关闭
• lock 锁
• up 向上
• jug 水壶
• lag 落后
• immure 监禁
• put behind bars 关押(监禁)
• remand 送还
• gaol 监狱

【反义词】

• free 自由的
• liberate 解放