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 prison ['prɪzn.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 监狱, 监禁, 拘留所

vt. 监禁

[法] 监狱, 牢狱, 看守所




    prison
    [ noun ]
    1. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

    4. <noun.state>


    Prison \Pris"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prisoned}; p. pr. & vb.
    n. {Prisoning}.]
    1. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to
    confine; to restrain from liberty.

    The prisoned eagle dies for rage. --Sir W.
    Scott.

    His true respect will prison false desire. --Shak.

    2. To bind (together); to enchain. [Obs.]

    Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led
    Together prisoned. --Robert of
    Brunne.


    Prison \Pris"on\ (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a
    seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of,
    to seize. See {Prehensile}, and cf. {Prize}, n.,
    {Misprision}.]
    1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of
    personal liberty; hence, a place or state o? confinement,
    restraint, or safe custody.

    Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy
    name. --Ps. cxlii.
    7.

    The tyrant [AE]olus, . . .
    With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds,
    And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.
    --Dryden.

    2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or
    confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful
    authority.

    {Prison bars}, or {Prison base}. See {Base}, n., 24.

    {Prison breach}. (Law) See Note under 3d {Escape}, n., 4.

    {Prison house}, a prison. --Shak.

    {Prison ship} (Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement
    of prisoners.

    {Prison van}, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to
    and from prison.

    1. Moore, a Republican who was governor from 1969 to 1977 and again from 1985 to 1989, is the second West Virginia governor to serve a prison term.
    2. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who visited Casolo in prison, said: "There are many individuals who do not receive such fortunate treatment and who do not have the benefit of so many friends in America.
    3. Sheriff Aarvis Whitman calls the home a prison and has refused to send back runaways.
    4. The lack of books had made his childhood in Scotland seem like prison, but when he reached London, he found things little better. The greatest city in the world had no public libraries and books were expensive.
    5. Former US Central Intelligence Agency officer Aldrich Ames (left) was sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in Virginia to spying for Moscow.
    6. His lawyers produced letters Cook wrote to McLaughlin from prison, in which she admitted killing the neighbor.
    7. If convicted, Turner could face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of six counts.
    8. Repeating an argument made during the eight-week trial, North's lawyers said he was mostly charged with activities that were "authorized by his superiors." "A prison sentence for Lt.
    9. On Monday, prison officials will begin to house up to 90 inmates in dormitories that have been housing 50 inmates, Coughlin said.
    10. Nine of the charges carry maximum penalties of five years in prison and fines of $250,000 each.
    11. In fact, 28 of them, run consecutively, like a long prison sentence.
    12. His tan slacks and blue worker's jacket, saved from before he went to prison, were loose on his slight frame.
    13. Packer eventually was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
    14. This is good, because most of the show - despite all the bombing, shooting, attempted prison breakouts and high-speed blurs of red - is strictly from arrrrrrgh.
    15. A Nov. 1 order signed by Circuit Judge William Howell found Siegel in contempt of a 1986 ruling that he make the connection. Howell gave Siegel 60 days to hook up or go to prison.
    16. If convicted of the latest charges, Mrs. Holzer could face up to 15 years in prison.
    17. William Johnny Mason and Lynwood White pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor, which carries a maximum one year prison term and $1,000 fine.
    18. Letting him and his family live in prison would have been more just.
    19. The 82 survivors were taken to a prison camp, where they endured beatings and physical and psychological torture.
    20. The Lundgrens' son, Jeffrey, must serve at least 120 years in prison for his conviction on four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of four of the Averys.
    21. Jim Bakker, the television evangelist who lost his PTL empire in a sex scandal, was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $500,000 Tuesday for defrauding his followers for his own enrichment.
    22. A jury convicted them last year of extortion and both were sentenced to three years in prison with the recommendation they be released on parole after serving six months.
    23. Tommy Munoz of Chicago was captured just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday by prison authorities who had staked out his cousin's house on the city's Southwest Side, about 40 miles east of the prison, Howell said.
    24. Tommy Munoz of Chicago was captured just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday by prison authorities who had staked out his cousin's house on the city's Southwest Side, about 40 miles east of the prison, Howell said.
    25. Such views once landed him in prison for nine years.
    26. Hung joined the revolution at the age of 16. The French arrested him in 1931 and banished him to a decade and a half of hard labor at the notorious prison island of Poulo Condore.
    27. A woman located through income tax errors has pleaded guilty to escaping from a federal women's prison 10 years ago, but even a prosecutor cites her good behavior since then.
    28. Madani began a two-year prison in 1982 for organizing a fundamentalist protest.
    29. In fact, the man had been in prison for armed robbery.
    30. Walsh said a prison term is necessary to reduce North's political following that was cultivated on the lecture circuit and "reinforces his lack of remorse." Walsh rejected North's contention that he is a scapegoat.
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