单词：imprisonment
[法] 监禁, 徒刑, 拘禁
n. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
考试类型：[托福]
imprisonment的用法和样例：
例句
- For an offence of this gravity, imprisonment is the usual punishment.对这种重大罪行通常处以监禁。
- Serious crime must be punished by longer terms of imprisonment.重罪须处以长期监禁。
- He got two years' imprisonment for assaulting a police officer.他因袭击警察而遭两年监禁。
- Recent events lean me more towards favoring longer years of imprisonment.最近发生的事件更使我倾向于延长罪犯关押年限的意见。
- Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment.她那充满活力，跃跃欲试的青春，遭到了精神上的禁锢。
- Sometimes it is to seduce another into a long-term imprisonment known as marriage.有时候，是去引诱别人进入婚姻的长期禁锢。
词汇搭配
- life imprisonment无期徒刑
- false imprisonment非法监禁
- imprison监禁
经典引文
Imprisonment was not enough. They must receive six thousand lashes.
出自：E. Crankshaw
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