基本释义
- n.
- 关押，监禁; “imprison”的派生
词性变化
- 动词:imprison;
实用例句
We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.
我们被禁止使用母语，违者将被关进监狱。
柯林斯例句
She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder.
她因投毒和谋杀未遂被判20年监禁。
柯林斯例句
In 1977 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
1977年，他被判谋杀罪名成立，判处终身监禁。
柯林斯例句
He was sentenced to a flogging and life imprisonment.
他被判鞭笞和终身监禁。
柯林斯例句
He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
他因藐视法庭面临监禁。
柯林斯例句
a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment
由死刑减为终身监禁
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
Prosecution for a first minor offence rarely leads to imprisonment.
因初犯轻罪被控者很少被判监禁。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.
他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年.
《简明英汉词典》
Brooke was arrested and subsequently sentenced to five years'imprisonment.
布鲁克被逮捕,其后被判五年监禁.
《简明英汉词典》
His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.
他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑.
《简明英汉词典》
His treachery led to the capture and imprisonment of his friend.
由于他的背叛,他的朋友被捕入狱.
《简明英汉词典》
He got off with only a fine instead of possible imprisonment.
他仅受到罚款而不被监禁.
《简明英汉词典》
The Act states that anyone committing the offence is liable to imprisonment.
这一法案规定任何犯下此罪的人都有可能被监禁.
《简明英汉词典》
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.
《简明英汉词典》
The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment.
死刑可能減为无期徒刑.
《简明英汉词典》
真题例句
False fire alarms are illegal and may lead to imprisonment.
2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.
2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section ⅡThe humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens'greatest wound and became his deepest secret.
2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ英英释义
1. putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
2. the state of being imprisoned;
"he was held in captivity until he died"
"the imprisonment of captured soldiers"
"his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"
"he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
3. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)