putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
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\\\"
the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
造句
用作名詞(n.)
For an offence of this gravity, imprisonment is the usual punishment. 對這種重大罪行通常處以監(jiān)禁。
Serious crime must be punished by longer terms of imprisonment. 重罪須處以長期監(jiān)禁。
He got two years\\\' imprisonment for assaulting a police officer. 他因襲擊警察而遭兩年監(jiān)禁。
Recent events lean me more towards favoring longer years of imprisonment. 最近發(fā)生的事件更使我傾向于延長罪犯關(guān)押年限的意見。
Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment. 她那充滿活力，躍躍欲試的青春，遭到了精神上的禁錮。
Sometimes it is to seduce another into a long-term imprisonment known as marriage. 有時候，是去引誘別人進入婚姻的長期禁錮。
常用短語
life imprisonment
無期徒刑
false imprisonment
非法監(jiān)禁
imprison
監(jiān)禁
組詞
Imprisonment was not enough. They must receive six thousand lashes.