Imprison
[ɪm'prɪz(ə)n] or [ɪm'prɪzn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) 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'.
凯思琳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
(v. t.) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
編輯:梅布尔
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Incarcerate, immure, impound, confine, commit, shut up.
校對:弗恩
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Immure, incarcerate, shut_up, confine
ANT:Free, liberate, open, set_free
手打:内蒂
解釋/意思:
v.t. to put in prison: to shut up: to confine or restrain.—n. Impris′onment the act of imprisoning or state of being imprisoned: confinement or restraint.
唐尼手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Be it so; drag me away--I return; confine me, imprison me, still I escape, and come here. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I was also directed to handle rebels within our lines without gloves, to imprison them, or to expel them from their homes and from our lines. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have been here three days, continued Kantos Kan, but I have not yet found where Dejah Thoris is imprisoned. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Shortly he printed another from the same source and was imprisoned three months for his pains. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Could it be possible that the sense of unreality in which he felt himself imprisoned had communicated itself to his wife? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Do you know that I am the man whom you have been imprisoning and robbing? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Her mother was guiltless of imprisoning her in the Asylum. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In the can system the water is frozen from all four sides to the center, and imprisons in the center any air bubbles or impurities that may exist in the water. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
整理:尼古拉斯