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

• Taken away by the police, they were held in solitary confinement, without access to lawyers, family or reading matter, for weeks and sometimes for months.
  他们被警方带走，关押在单人牢房里长达数周（有时甚至是数月），不能接受律师和家人探访，也没有任何读物。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Solitary confinement does not involve any direct physical deprivation.
  单独监禁不涉及任何直接的物质剥夺。
• 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。
• South African singer Larry Joe found in solitary confinement the peace of mind he needed to develop his talent.
  南非歌手拉里•乔在单独监禁时通过开发自身才能从而使自己内心得以平静，而这正是他所需要的。
• The prisoner was kept solitary confinement.
  那名囚犯被单独监禁。
• 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。