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

• 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。
• 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。
• Drugs, magnetic fields, sound waves, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, and many other methods were studied under BLUEBIRD and ARTHICHOKE.
  药物，磁场，声波，剥夺睡眠，单独监禁，并且许多其他方法在蓝知更鸟和朝鲜蓟下被研究。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• The state of being in solitary confinement. 'Why am I confined alone?'
  单独监禁处于被单独限制起来的状态我为什么要单独监禁？
• 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。