英语词汇“imprison”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

VERB TABLE

imprison

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	imprison
	he, she, it	imprisons
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	imprisoned
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have imprisoned
	he, she, it	has imprisoned
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had imprisoned
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will imprison
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have imprisoned

Continuous Form
Present	I	am imprisoning
	he, she, it	is imprisoning
	you, we, they	are imprisoning
Past	I, he, she, it	was imprisoning
	you, we, they	were imprisoning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been imprisoning
	he, she, it	has been imprisoning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been imprisoning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be imprisoning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been imprisoning

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

If convicted, she will be imprisoned for at least six years.
The priest had been imprisoned for preaching the gospel.
Thousands of civilians were arrested, imprisoned and killed
Two of the boys have been imprisoned for theft.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

An abandoned circus wagon with peeling paint is in the background, in it a hopeless dark woman imprisoned behind bars.
Freire was arrested and, for a time, imprisoned.
He had been imprisoned for want of bail.
If he attempts to avoid paying, he may be fined or imprisoned.
In September of that year 55,457 people or 97.4 per 100,000 of the population were imprisoned.
She had been imprisoned by Mary on charges of treason.
The talks are expected to move slowly because the Tupac Amaru rebels insist that the government release more than 300 imprisoned comrades.
To his head they fixed a cage in which a rat had been imprisoned.

Longman Language Activatorunable to escape► can't escape/can't get out

· I've locked all the doors and windows - he can't get out.· Two of the children couldn't escape, and died in the fire.

► trapped

unable to escape from a dangerous place or an unpleasant situation: · The miners have been trapped underground for three days.· He was beginning to feel trapped in his job.· The two trapped firefighters were rescued on the second day.

► be stuck

especially spoken to be unable to escape from an unpleasant or boring situation: be stuck in/with/here: · I don't want to be stuck in an office all my life.· I'm tired of being stuck here with the kids all day.

► be cooped up

informal to be unable to leave a place, so that you feel bored or very impatient: be cooped up in: · I didn't want to be cooped up in a small hotel room, while everyone else enjoyed the sea.be cooped up with: · I don't know how she survives being cooped up with three screaming kids all day!

► there is no escape

used to say that there does not seem to be any way of escaping from a dangerous or unpleasant place or situation: · Don't even try to get out of here - there's no escape.there is no escape from: · There seems to be no escape from the noise and confusion of city life.

► be imprisoned

to be unable to escape, or feel too frightened to escape, from the place where you are or from an unpleasant situation: · Some of these old people are imprisoned in their own homes by the threat of violence on the streets.

► be a prisoner

to be unable to escape, for example from a place, an unpleasant situation, or your own thoughts and opinions, so that you feel you cannot do anything to change things: · The door was locked from the outside, and suddenly they realized they were prisoners.be a prisoner of: · In some respects I'm a prisoner of my past - I don't feel I can just start over.

to put someone in prison as a punishment► put somebody in prison/jail

also send somebody to prison/jail to officially order someone to be taken to prison and kept there: · Eventually, her attacker was caught and put in prison.· The judge sent him to jail for seven years.

► lock up

informal to put someone in prison - use this especially when you think that someone deserves to be in prison: lock somebody up: · Rapists deserve to be locked up for the rest of their lives.lock up somebody: · It costs $23,000 a year to lock up an adult.· Locking up more criminals has helped to reduce the crime rate and produce safer streets.

► throw somebody in jail

to put someone in prison - use this especially when you think that someone does not deserve to be in prison: · The court's decision suggests that it is OK to throw pregnant women in jail just because they are addicted.· When they called for free elections, the government threw them all in jail.

► jail

to put someone in prison for a fixed period of time - used especially in newspaper reports: · Many of the group's leaders have now been jailed.be jailed for (doing) something: · About 5000 people have been jailed for crimes of terrorism or treason since 1992.· Marco was arrested and jailed for accepting bribes from drug dealers.

► imprison

formal to put someone in prison - use this especially when you think the punishment is wrong or unfair: · Thousands of civilians were arrested, imprisoned and killedbe imprisoned for (doing) something: · Two of the boys have been imprisoned for theft.· The priest had been imprisoned for preaching the gospel.

► incarcerate

to put someone in prison - used in newspapers, television etc and in formal contexts: · Carter spent 19 years incarcerated in New Jersey on murder charges.· There are too many people on death row who are innocent of the crimes for which they are incarcerated.

► intern

to put someone, especially someone from another country, in prison during a war, because they are thought to be dangerous: · The French soldiers, who had surrendered without fighting, were interned in Hanoi.· Thousands died. And thousands were interned in forced labour camps.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► be arrested/imprisoned/shot etc as a spy

· Anyone caught working with the Resistance was shot as a spy.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► man

· In addition, district courts were given the power to imprison these men for up to four years.

► years

· He admitted the charge and was imprisoned for three years.

VERB► arrest

· All seven were arrested, imprisoned and brought to trial before a High Court judge at Renfrew.· Ministers and priests and lay leaders were arrested and imprisoned.· Total censorship restricts information about people who are arrested or imprisoned.· On 21 December Pianezza and Druento were arrested and imprisoned.· Sometimes they succeeded in their aims, sometimes their leaders were arrested and imprisoned.

WORD FAMILYnounprisonprisonerimprisonmentadjectiveimprisonableverbimprison