单词 | solitary confinement |
释义 | solitary confinementWord family nounsolitariansolitarinesssolitary confinementadverbsolitarilyadjectivesolitary Jail & punishmentˌsolitary conˈfinement noun [uncountableU] SCJa punishment in which a prisoner is kept alone and is not allowed to see anyone else 〔对囚犯的〕单独监禁 in solitary confinement He spent more than half his time in prison in solitary confinement. 他在狱中多半时间是被单独监禁的。 Examples from the Corpus solitary confinement• There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.• Mordechai Vanunu continues to be held in solitary confinement in Ashkelon prison.• Xi is in solitary confinement, allowed only monthly visits with his father.• I spent the vast majority of my time in solitary confinement.• My days of solitary confinement were over.• Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement.• I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison, or more than one year of solitary confinement. |
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