prison

英 ['prɪzn] 美 ['prɪzn]

• n. 监狱；监禁
• vt. 囚禁；关入监狱

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]监狱,看守所

   place where people are kept locked up as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial

2. [C]牢笼,禁锢之地

   place from which sb or animals cannot escape

3. [U]监禁,入狱,坐牢

   being kept in a prison; imprisonment

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 监狱，牢笼，囹圄
2. 监禁，禁闭，关押
3. 拘留所，羁押室，禁闭室，看守所
4. 陷阱
5. 难以脱身的地方，禁锢之地
6. 牢狱，禁锢，限制
7. 关押制度

v. 动词

1. 监禁，关押，囚禁
2. 紧紧抱住

英英释义

Noun:

1. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

2. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The police crushed out the rebellion in the prison.
   警察把发生在监狱中的暴乱镇压了下去。
2. That felon tried to escape from the prison.
   那名重罪犯试图从监狱中逃跑。
3. His deliverance from the prison puzzled us.
   他被从监狱释放使我们困惑不已。
4. Strikes by prison officers underline the need for reform in our gaols.
   监狱工作人员罢工一事，突出地表明我们的监狱制度需要改革。
5. The thief was put into prison for one year.
   小偷被监禁一年。
6. Many people believe that prison isn't a cure for crime.
   许多人都相信监禁解决不了犯罪问题。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
   她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。
2. He has been kept in prison for weeks without food and dies like a dog.
   他被囚禁了几星期，没有食物果腹，最後悲惨地死去。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. There is a large prison in this town.
   城里有座大监狱。
2. He is in prison for smoking marijuana.
   他因吸大麻而蹲监狱。
3. Tom hates school; it's a prison to him.
   汤姆不喜欢上学,学校对他来说好像是个牢笼。
4. Many people believe that prison isn't a cure for crime.
   许多人认为监禁并不是治疗犯罪的良药。
5. The prison walls are very high.
   监狱的围墙很高。

经典引文

• Prison for lads should be the last..resort.

  出自：Daily News

• The key turned in the lock. He and Sarah were in prison.

  出自： D. Eden

• The new maximum security prison.

  出自：Guardian

• Denmark's a prison.

  出自：Hamlet , Shakespeare

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

clap in〔into〕 prison

〈非正〉投入监狱 put into prison
clap sb in〔into〕 prison
The judge clapped the criminal in prison.

法官把犯人投入狱中。
The judge clapped her into prison before she had had time to explain.

法官没等她辩解,就把她关进了监狱。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• break prison 越狱
• throw sb in〔into〕 prison 把某人投入监狱

形容词+～

• damp prison 潮湿的监狱
• overcrowded prison 过于拥挤的监狱

介词+～

• at prison 在监狱
• in prison 在狱中
• out of prison 越狱

～+介词

• prison for confinement 拘留所

词义辨析

jail，prison，cell

• 这些名词均有“牢房、监狱”之意。
• jail(英国英语拼写为gaol)指收犯轻罪的人或未经判决的人的处所。
• prison指触犯刑律的人被关押的地方，通常指判决后的罪犯居留地。
• cell指单人牢房或几个人合住的小牢房。

词源解说

• ☆ 12世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的prisoun，意为监禁。

近反义词

【近义词】

• cage