Imprisonment

(noun.) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison).

(noun.) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment.

校对:拉弗尔斯

• As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• For myself, my Canterbury Pilgrimage has done much; imprisonment on civil process, and want, will soon do more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Crushed at first by his imprisonment, he had soon found a dull relief in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Let me share your imprisonment on Shador. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Our dainty fare was often exchanged for blows and imprisonment. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Has it been your misfortune to undergo a long imprisonment, without trial, or even accusation, in your native country, Doctor Manette? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Young man,' said Mr. Stiggins ostentatiously, 'I fear you are not softened by imprisonment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The master and mariners, knowing this offence, forfeit all their goods and chattels, and suffer three months imprisonment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And a world state and universal justice does not mean the imprisonment of our race in any bleak institutional orderliness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Let us out, you old fox, or I'll get him to bring an action against you for false imprisonment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I judge by your looks, brave sir, that imprisonment will subdue your blood much sooner than it softens this hot wine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• What would it profit a woman, for example, to get him a few months' imprisonment if her own ruin must immediately follow? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He answered, in a tone that went to every heart, A long imprisonment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But Beppo was condemned to a year's imprisonment, and in the meanwhile his six busts were scattered over London. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• That is a dreadful imprisonment, said Will, impetuously. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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