imprisonment

英 [ɪm'prɪznmənt] 美 [ɪm'prɪznmənt]

• n. 【U】监禁；关押；禁锢

英英释义

Noun:

1. putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

2. the state of being imprisoned;

   "he was held in captivity until he died"
   "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"
   "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"
   "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
   

3. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. For an offence of this gravity, imprisonment is the usual punishment.
   对这种重大罪行通常处以监禁。
2. Serious crime must be punished by longer terms of imprisonment.
   重罪须处以长期监禁。
3. He got two years' imprisonment for assaulting a police officer.
   他因袭击警察而遭两年监禁。
4. Recent events lean me more towards favoring longer years of imprisonment.
   最近发生的事件更使我倾向于延长罪犯关押年限的意见。
5. Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment.
   她那充满活力，跃跃欲试的青春，遭到了精神上的禁锢。
6. Sometimes it is to seduce another into a long-term imprisonment known as marriage.
   有时候，是去引诱别人进入婚姻的长期禁锢。

经典引文

• Imprisonment was not enough. They must receive six thousand lashes.

  出自： E. Crankshaw

词汇搭配

• life imprisonment 无期徒刑
• false imprisonment 非法监禁
• imprison 监禁

近反义词

【近义词】

• bondage 奴役
• constraint 约束
• penalty 处罚
• captivity 囚禁
• incarceration 下狱
• internment 拘禁
• custody 拘留
• detention 滞留
• sentence 句子
• term 学期
• time 时间
• confinement 拘禁
• immurement 监禁