| 释义 |
dungeondun‧geon /ˈdʌndʒən/ noun [countable]   dungeonOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French donjon ‘central part of a castle’, from Latin dominus ‘lord’ - A narrow stairwell wound like a corkscrew into the dungeons of the castle.
- Adelaide refused and was thrown in the dungeon of a castle on Lake Garda.
- Gwen will be thinking I've been put in a dungeon.
- It was like coming up out of a dungeon, Sandi decided.
- Multi-player dungeons contain not only people but also bots-non-human programs that imitate people.
- Some nights he was dragged into a dark underground dungeon, where he would spend the night on the cold dirt floor.
- The door to the dungeon in which I had been living for a year was open.
- Travellers stripped of their possessions and disappearing into castle dungeons, never to be heard of again.
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