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imprisonment

英 [ɪm'prɪz(ə)nm(ə)nt] 美[ɪm'prɪznmənt]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词penalty

n. 监禁，关押；坐牢；下狱

TEM4中低频词TOEFL

词态变化

动词: imprison;

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)

英文词源

imprisonment (n.): late 14c., from Anglo-French emprisonement, Old French emprisonement (13c.), from emprisoner (see imprison).

考试真题

False fire alarms are illegal and may lead to imprisonment.

Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.

The humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens'greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

实用场景例句

We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.: 我们被禁止使用母语，违者将被关进监狱。

She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder.: 她因投毒和谋杀未遂被判20年监禁。

In 1977 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.: 1977年，他被判谋杀罪名成立，判处终身监禁。

He was sentenced to a flogging and life imprisonment.: 他被判鞭笞和终身监禁。

He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.: 他因藐视法庭面临监禁。

a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment: 由死刑减为终身监禁

Prosecution for a first minor offence rarely leads to imprisonment.: 因初犯轻罪被控者很少被判监禁。

He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.: 他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年.

Brooke was arrested and subsequently sentenced to five years'imprisonment.: 布鲁克被逮捕,其后被判五年监禁.

His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.: 他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑.

His treachery led to the capture and imprisonment of his friend.: 由于他的背叛,他的朋友被捕入狱.

He got off with only a fine instead of possible imprisonment.: 他仅受到罚款而不被监禁.

The Act states that anyone committing the offence is liable to imprisonment.: 这一法案规定任何犯下此罪的人都有可能被监禁.

Recent events lean me more towards favoring longer years of imprisonment.: 最近发生的事件更使我倾向于延长罪犯关押年限的意见.

The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment.: 死刑可能減为无期徒刑.