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imprison vt.监禁,关押 v.监禁 Cops imprison suspects who can't make bail, and someone could be imprisoned for a long time if convicted of a serious crime. Government agencies like the CIA and FBI also imprison people. However, you don't need a prison to imprison someone: a kidnapper holding people captive in the basement has imprisoned them. ★★☆☆☆ 2004.6

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[im'priz(ə)n] To imprison is to hold someone in a prison or jail. It can also mean to confine them elsewhere. You might imprison a classmate in a locker, for example. Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society. 1[VERB 动词]关押；监禁 If someone is imprisoned, they are locked up or kept somewhere, usually in prison as a punishment for a crime or for political opposition.   [be V-ed]  [V n]The local priest was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of anti-state agitation...当地牧师由于受到煽动反对政府的指控而被监禁 18 个月。Dutch colonial authorities imprisoned him for his part in the independence movement.荷兰殖民当局因他参加独立运动而把他关押了起来。

英语单词	imprison
英美音标	[im'priz(ə)n]
中文释义	vt.监禁,关押 v.监禁
vocab简明	To imprison is to hold someone in a prison or jail. It can also mean to confine them elsewhere. You might imprison a classmate in a locker, for example.
vocab扩展	Cops imprison suspects who can't make bail, and someone could be imprisoned for a long time if convicted of a serious crime. Government agencies like the CIA and FBI also imprison people. However, you don't need a prison to imprison someone: a kidnapper holding people captive in the basement has imprisoned them.
真题原句	Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.
柯林斯星级	★★☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]关押；监禁 If someone is imprisoned, they are locked up or kept somewhere, usually in prison as a punishment for a crime or for political opposition. [be V-ed] [V n] The local priest was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of anti-state agitation... 当地牧师由于受到煽动反对政府的指控而被监禁 18 个月。 Dutch colonial authorities imprisoned him for his part in the independence movement. 荷兰殖民当局因他参加独立运动而把他关押了起来。
来源	2004.6

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