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单词 confinement
释义
confinementcon‧fine‧ment /kənˈfaɪnmənt/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • During his confinement, Wen taught himself how to read.
  • He was sentenced to 5 months of home confinement for the crime.
  • Prisoners are punished by being put in solitary confinement.
  • She was sentenced to 15 days' confinement in her cell for violating a direct order.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And although federally sponsored hospitals for specific diseases are uncommon in the United States, federally sponsored places of confinement are not.
  • Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement, can go to the end of the queue.
  • Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement.
  • It was the light also of that china-cabinet room in the apartment where he had suffered confinement with Shula-Slawa.
  • Sien was admitted for her confinement while he was still in hospital himself.
  • The thought of confinement can make me ill at ease.
  • These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen you are forced to stay somewhere
if someone who the police think is guilty of a crime is in custody , they are kept in prison until it is time for them to be judged in a court: · Parry was in custody for a month before being released.be in police custody (=in a police station): · The activist died under suspicious circumstances while he was in police custody.be remanded in custody (=be sent back to prison from a court until your trial): · Three men and a woman have been remanded in custody on fraud charges.
if someone is under arrest , the police are keeping them guarded because they think they are guilty of a crime: · He's under arrest and may only be seen by his lawyer.be under house arrest (=not be allowed to leave your home): · The opposition leader has been under house arrest for the past few months.
when someone is being forced to stay in a place where they do not want to be - use this when this situation is illegal or wrong: · In his autobiography, Mandela describes his life during captivity.in captivity: · The hostages are now entering their fourth week in captivity.
when someone is being kept as a prisoner, especially as a punishment for a crime: · Johnson was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for causing a riot.· The offence is punishable by either a fine or imprisonment.life imprisonment (=for the rest of someone's life): · Garrison faces life imprisonment for his role in the killings.
when someone is being kept somewhere by the police, usually because they think that person has done something illegal and they want to ask them questions: · By the 1920s the average period of detention for new immigrants lasted two weeks.· A dissident, recently released from detention, gave a press conference in the capital today.in detention: · About a dozen people remain in detention without trial.take somebody into detention: · They were taken into detention two weeks ago and still are not allowed visitors.detention center (=a place where someone is kept by the police): · There was another riot at the men's detention center yesterday.juvenile detention (=a place that is like a prison for young people) American: · He was in and out of juvenile detention for drugs charges as a teenager.
when someone is being kept in a room, prison etc: · He was sentenced to 5 months of home confinement for the crime.solitary confinement (=the state of being kept completely alone): · Prisoners are punished by being put in solitary confinement.
WORD SETS
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Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems, for example, do not fare well, all considered?· From that time she was kept in close confinement and treated with cruelty.· More than half the sows are kept in close confinement systems.· Being in close confinement and everything like that.· Probably, in the close confinement, he would suffocate in his own smoke.
· 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.· Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement, can go to the end of the queue.· When I was in solitary confinement I was in a state of hatred.· I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison, or more than one year of solitary confinement.· Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement.· I spent the vast majority of my time in solitary confinement.
VERB
· For the next seven weeks, Gobalkrishnan was held in solitary confinement and denied access to a lawyer or his family.· Mordechai Vanunu continues to be held in solitary confinement in Ashkelon prison.· Tonight he's being held in solitary confinement.· Until more is known concerning his death, I judge that you must be held in confinement within my custody.· He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounconfinementconfinesadjectiveconfinedverbconfine
1[uncountable] formal the act of putting someone in a room, prison etc that they are not allowed to leave, or the state of being there:  They were held in confinement for three weeks. He visited prisoners at their place of confinement. solitary confinement2[countable, uncountable] old-fashioned or formal the time when a woman gives birth to a baby:  the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinement
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