| 单词 | prison fortress |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprison fortress prison fortress n. ΚΠ 1800 Narr. Sketches Conquest Mysore 82 All the other British captives who had survived their sufferings in the different prison fortresses of Tippoo's dominions. 1830 M. W. Shelley Fortunes Perkin Warbeck I. vii. 130 He was led back to the prison-fortress, despairing, but unresisting. 1923 F. J. Mather Hist. Ital. Painting 40 There were allegories of a strong and weak state, in the Bargello, the prison-fortress of the Captain of the People. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 July (Foreign Desk section) 10/5 He may have failed to provide the close oversight last fall that could have prevented the debacle at Abu Ghraib, the prison fortress 20 miles west. < as lemmas |
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