solitary confinement

英 [ˌsɒlətri kənˈfaɪnmənt]

美 [ˌsɑːləteri kənˈfaɪnmənt]

n.  单独监禁; 单独禁闭

法律

牛津词典

noun

• 单独监禁；单独禁闭
  a punishment in which a prisoner is kept alone in a separate cell
  1. to be in solitary confinement
     被单独监禁

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 单独监禁
  A prisoner who isin solitary confinementis being kept alone away from all other prisoners, usually as a punishment.
  1. Last night he was being held in solitary confinement in Douglas jail.
     昨晚他被单独监禁在道格拉斯的监狱里。

英英释义

noun

• confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners
  1. he was held in solitary
  Synonym:solitary

双语例句

• The jailers insisted that he had been placed in solitary confinement for his own protection.
  看守坚持说把他单独监禁是为了保护他。
• The woman was diagnosed as clinically depressed after weeks of being kept in solitary confinement.
  这个女人在被单独禁闭了几星期后，被临床诊断为抑郁症。
• Later this was relaxed and every inmate except those sent to solitary confinement ate the same meagre diet.
  后来这又放宽了，除去单独隔离的囚犯之外，其他人都供应一样可怜的食物。
• The prisoner was sentenced to three months 'solitary confinement, ie kept apart from other prisoners.
  那犯人被判处单独监禁叁个月（与其他犯人隔离）。
• The prisoner was kept solitary confinement.
  那名囚犯被单独监禁。
• I'm living in solitary confinement.
  我简直是独自生活在监狱里。
• Prisoners imagine that solitary confinement will be worse than it really is; mothers-to-be think the pain of childbirth will be more bearable than it typically proves to be.
  囚犯们想象单独监禁的感觉会比实际情况更糟；准妈妈们会认为生孩子的痛苦比通常实际证明的情况更可忍受。
• She had been held in solitary confinement for four months
  她被单独关押了4个月。
• Much of that time he'd been in Iran's notorious Evin prison in solitary confinement and facing imminent execution over claims that he'd helped his older brother Alborz to spy for a dissident group. No evidence for that was ever produced.
  大多数时间他都被单独监禁在伊朗臭名昭著的埃文监狱里，并被认定曾经帮助过自己的哥哥奥保兹去到一个持不同意见的组织中充当间谍，而他面临的是即将到来的行刑。
• He have is put in solitary confinement for attack another prisoner.
  他因伤害另一囚犯而被隔离监禁。