| 释义 |
solitary confinementˌsolitary conˈfinement noun [uncountable]   - Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement.
- I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison, or more than one year of solitary confinement.
- I spent the vast majority of my time in solitary confinement.
- Mordechai Vanunu continues to be held in solitary confinement in Ashkelon prison.
- My days of solitary confinement were over.
- There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.
- Xi is in solitary confinement, allowed only monthly visits with his father.
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