首页imprisonmentimprisonment英英释意
imprisonment
英 [ɪm'prɪz(ə)nm(ə)nt]
美[ɪm'prɪznmənt]
- n. 监禁，关押；坐牢；下狱
英英释意
- 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)