单词 | incarceration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | incarceratein‧car‧ce‧rate /ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪt $ -ɑːr-/ verb [transitive] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINincarcerate Verb TableOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of incarcerare, from carcer ‘prison’VERB TABLE incarcerate
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Longman Language Activatorto put someone in prison as a punishment► put somebody in prison/jail to put or keep someone in prison SYN imprison: He spent 10 years incarcerated.GRAMMAR Incarcerate is usually passive.—incarceration /ɪnˌkɑːsəˈreɪʃən $ -ˌkɑːr-/ noun [uncountable] 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. WORD SETS► Jail & punishmentborstal, nouncell, nounchain, nounchain gang, nounconcentration camp, nounconcurrent, adjectiveconfinement, nounconvict, nouncorrectional, adjectivecustodial sentence, nouncustody, noundeath row, noundetainee, noundetention, noundetention centre, noundrunk tank, noundungeon, nounfetter, verbfetters, noungaol, gaoler, noungovernor, nounguard, verbgulag, nounhandcuff, verbhandcuffs, nounincarcerate, verbinmate, nouninside, adverbintern, verbinternee, nouninternment, nounjailbreak, nounlabour camp, nounlifer, nounmanacle, nounold lag, nounopen prison, nounoubliette, nounparole, nounparole, verbpen, nounpenal, adjectivepenitentiary, nounpillory, nounpokey, nounpolitical prisoner, nounporridge, nounpreventive detention, nounprison, nounprison camp, nounprisoner, nounprisoner of conscience, nounprisoner of war, nounprison visitor, nounreformatory, nounremand home, nounremission, nounserve, verbshackle, nounshackle, verbsolitary, nounsolitary confinement, nounstretch, nounthumbscrew, nounwarden, nounwarder, nounyardbird, noun |
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