Prison
[ 'prizn ]
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n. 监狱;牢笼;监禁;入狱;
📝 例句
At the thought of being sent to prison, he shook with fear.
他一想到被送进监狱，就吓得发抖。
His confinement in prison will expire soon.
他的监禁即将期满。
He was sent to prison for forgery.
他因伪造证件被关进监狱。
His enemies tried to railroad him to prison without a fair trial.
他的敌人试图在无合理证据情况下把他投入监狱。
A church, school, hospital, asylum, or prison is an institution.
教堂,学校,医院,收容所或监狱皆属公共机构。
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ poison-毒害,prison-监狱:毒害老百姓,被关进了监狱
※ pr-拼音“仆人”,I-我,son-儿子:仆人把我儿子送进了监狱
※ p-拼音“痞”,ri-拼音“日”,son-儿子:地痞在监狱,日夜想儿子
✅ 同义词
🔤 词根
-cept-表示“抓住”
常见变体有-cap-、-cip-、-ceiv-
📖 牛津释义
prison
n
1 [C]
(a) place where people are kept locked up as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial 监狱; 看守所
The prisons are overcrowded. 监狱人满为患.
A modern prison has replaced the Victorian one. 一所现代化的监狱取代了那所维多利亚时代的监狱.
[attrib 作定语]
the prison population, ie the total number of prisoners in a country 监押人数（一个国家的囚犯总数）.
(b) (derog 贬) place from which sb cannot escape 某人无法逃脱的地方; 牢笼
Now that he was disabled, his house had become a prison to him. 因为他残废了, 他的房子就成了他的牢笼.
(fig 比喻) the prison of one's mind 思想上的束缚.
2 [U] being kept in a prison, esp as a punishment for crime; imprisonment 被监禁; （尤指）服刑; 坐牢
She's gone to/is in prison. 她已入狱[在狱中].
escape from, be released from, come out of prison 越狱、 释放、 出狱
He was sent to prison for five years. 他判了五年监禁.
Does prison do anything to prevent crime? 采取关押方法对制止犯罪有作用吗? =>Usage at school1 用法见 school1.
🎯 考研助记
地痞(p)在 监狱，日(ri)夜想儿子(er) 网友：tom 补充：因为pride（骄傲），进了prison（监狱）。
🔁 扩展释义
*['prizn]n. 监狱, 监禁, 拘留所vt. 监禁【法】 监狱, 牢狱, 看守所相关词组: cast sb into prison put sb into prison be taken to prison in prison go to prison be in prison
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📖 同为「MBA」词汇
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You must give the other half to the city of Venice.
你必须把另一半交给威尼斯城。
She never pitied me; she never praised me unless what I did was as good as that of the best of a normal person.
她从不怜悯我，她也从不表扬我，除非我所做的事像正常人干的那样出色。
Twelve days later, millions more Indians lined the railway tracks as a slow train took the jar containing his ashes 584 kilometres to a place by the river.
12天后，当一列慢车将盛有甘地骨灰的坛子驶向584公里外，靠近恒河的一个地方时，又有数百万人排列的铁路两旁，夹道送行。