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

• On a nine-day solitary confinement when he was handcuffed and shackled in jail after an argument with the police
  关于在与警察争论之后，他带着手铐和脚镣遭受9天的强制管教
• I'm living in solitary confinement.
  我简直是独自生活在监狱里。
• I spent the turn of the century in solitary confinement, in my windowless cell, amid the cries and moans of the medical ward.
  我在单人牢房里伴着病人般的尖叫和呻吟度过了世纪之交。
• 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。
• Oh, I think you will grow to like them, captain. a day or two of solitary confinement should see to that.
  喔，我想你会喜欢它们的，上校。在经过一天或两天的禁闭之后你就会喜欢了。
• An artificial space full of ugly machines, where you sweat through your paces in a horrible kind of solitary confinement.
  在这人造的空间里，满眼都是丑陋的机器，你在一种可怕的单身监禁状态下，亦步亦趋，汗流浃背。
• They might keep him for years in solitary confinement, they might send him to a labour-camp, they might release him for a while, as they sometimes did.
  他们可能长年把他单独监禁；他们可能送他去劳动营；他们可能先释放他一阵子，他们有时是这样做的。
• Then he asked to be put into solitary confinement, where he spent many months, and he started to write songs.
  后来他要求单独拘禁，在那里待了几个月，并开始创作歌曲。
• A common result is that the inmates are put in solitary confinement.
  结果往往是把这些囚犯单独关押起来。
• After 278 days of solitary confinement without benefit of a trial, on September 13, 2000, I was finally being freed.
  2000年9月13日，在未经审讯被单独监禁278天之后，我终于自由了。