Inmate
['ɪnmeɪt] or ['ɪnmet]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital).
班尼特手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling.
(a.) Admitted as a dweller; resident; internal.
弗里达編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Fellow-lodger, fellow-boarder.
錄入:温思罗普
解釋/意思:
n. one who lodges in the same house with another: a lodger: one received into a hospital &c.—adj. dwelling in the same place.
錄入:佩内洛普
例句/造句/用法:
- No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The name that Bella had so often seen in old newspapers, when she was an inmate of Mr Boffin's house! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On similar grounds he never beheld an inmate at any one of its windows but he touched his hat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mr Rokesmith is very punctual, very quiet, a very eligible inmate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I had an undefined impression that it might have been better if we had had some other inmate, but I could hardly have explained why even to myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I found this vision of beauty in Perdita's alcove, in earnest conversation with its inmate. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling-place. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The inmate was lying in troubled slumber upon a couch similar to that on which the Palmer himself had passed the night. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- One February night--I remember it well--there came a voice near Miss Marchmont's house, heard by every inmate, but translated, perhaps, only by one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mrs. Markleham was a regular inmate of the cottage then; but she talked and talked, and saw nothing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Miss Bella Wilfer becomes an inmate, for an indefinite period, of the eminently aristocratic dwelling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On receiving his inmate again, the proprietor of the Asylum acknowledged that he had observed some curious personal changes in her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Every house had its inmate; but I could not perceive them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Still, the same quiet life went on at the little cottage, and the same cheerful serenity prevailed among its inmates. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- They delighted in the burning of monasteries and nunneries and the slaughter of their inmates. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And busily, in my own mind, I ran over the list of our inmates, seeking this paragon, this pearl of great price, this gem without flaw. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- So disturbed was I that I determined to see a little more of the new inmates of the cottage. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- On the contrary, she could think of nothing but Mansfield, its beloved inmates, its happy ways. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Twice had he entered huts at night while the inmates lay sleeping upon their mats, and stolen the arrows from the very sides of the warriors. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Were the inmates retired to rest? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There was no appearance of its inmates stirring at that early hour. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The house and its inmates specially suited me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It took no inconsiderable perseverance to arouse the inmates; but at last the respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Instead of answering these letters, Miss Halcombe caused the house in St. John's Wood, and the proceedings of its inmates, to be privately watched. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The house swarmed with inmates. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The hotel was large, and the people kind, and all the inmates of the cart were taken in and placed on various couches. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This was resented by the Godfreys; we differed, and they removed, leaving me the whole house, and I resolved to take no more inmates. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
手打:奥拉夫