| 单词 | dungeon |
| 释义 | dungeon (once / 846 pages) n That dank, stone-walled underground prison where wretched prisoners were kept manacled in medieval days? That was a dungeon, otherwise known as the "keep," and most familiar to us today from a million video games and movies. In fact, the original meaning of dungeon was of something overground rather than underground, coming from the Old French term donjon, meaning the "great tower of a castle," and the underground meaning only came later. Rapunzel in the fairy tale was held captive in a tower rather than an underground cell and if she hadn't been, her long hair wouldn't have been much help in her escape. WORD FAMILYdungeon: dungeons USAGE EXAMPLESThe school calls the gym the Lions’ Den, but many visitors call it the Dungeon and liken playing there to playing hockey inside a box. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Imagine playing old-school Dungeons & Dragons with cards packing this technology — and try not to jump when a Hydra roars on the screen. Time(Dec 22, 2016) Dungeons unfold like horror films, each purpose-built and flush with jump-scare deathtraps or freakishly realistic foes that scamper from midnight blackness. Time(Nov 28, 2016) 1n the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress Syn|Exp|Hyper donjon, keep Black Hole of Calcutta a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive fastness, stronghold a strongly fortified defensive structure 2n a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined Hypo|Hyper oubliette a dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling cell, jail cell, prison cell a room where a prisoner is kept |
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