英语词汇“silent system”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

silent system now historical (with the) a prison system in which prisoners must be silent at all times and are prohibited from communicating with others, sometimes also involving hard labour, monotonous tasks, or solitary confinement.The silent system is also referred to as the Auburn system or the New York system, as it evolved in Auburn Prison in New York. It is often contrasted with the separate system (see separate confinement at separate adj. 2b). Although both systems enforced complete silence, the silent system required prisoners to do hard labour or boring, monotonous tasks alongside one another during the day. Under the separate system, prisoners were kept in complete isolation in solitary confinement during the day and night on the premise that this would allow them to reflect on their offences and repent. The silent system is particularly associated with the 19th cent., although variations of it still existed under this name in the 20th cent. (see e.g. quot. 1977).

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1834 Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian 11 Jan. All the prisoners who have been liberated express themselves in terms of unqualified horror at the enforcement of the silent system.

1977 Winnipeg Free Press 19 Feb. 38/1 We've gone from the silent system of the 50s, where under no circumstances were you allowed to hold a conversation with a prison guard, to the system of today.

2013 Isis 104 831/1 But silence can also be used to break people as part of the exercise of power; consider the ‘silent system’ of prison care in the nineteenth century.

单词	silent system
释义	> as lemmas silent system silent system now historical (with the) a prison system in which prisoners must be silent at all times and are prohibited from communicating with others, sometimes also involving hard labour, monotonous tasks, or solitary confinement.The silent system is also referred to as the Auburn system or the New York system, as it evolved in Auburn Prison in New York. It is often contrasted with the separate system (see separate confinement at separate adj. 2b). Although both systems enforced complete silence, the silent system required prisoners to do hard labour or boring, monotonous tasks alongside one another during the day. Under the separate system, prisoners were kept in complete isolation in solitary confinement during the day and night on the premise that this would allow them to reflect on their offences and repent. The silent system is particularly associated with the 19th cent., although variations of it still existed under this name in the 20th cent. (see e.g. quot. 1977). ΚΠ 1834 Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian 11 Jan. All the prisoners who have been liberated express themselves in terms of unqualified horror at the enforcement of the silent system. 1977 Winnipeg Free Press 19 Feb. 38/1 We've gone from the silent system of the 50s, where under no circumstances were you allowed to hold a conversation with a prison guard, to the system of today. 2013 Isis 104 831/1 But silence can also be used to break people as part of the exercise of power; consider the ‘silent system’ of prison care in the nineteenth century. extracted from silentadj.n. < as lemmas
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