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单词 immure
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immure
verb[T]
literary
uk
/ɪˈmjʊər/us
/ɪˈmjʊr/
to put someone inside something such as aprisonortomb(= aplacewheredeadbodiesareburied)andkeepthem there:
囚禁在牢房中；嵌在墙内；埋在坟墓里
Thearistocracychoseto immureitsdeadinchurchvaultsorspeciallyconstructedmausoleums.贵族选择将逝者安葬在教堂的地窖或专门建造的陵墓中。
Thefalseunclesealedthemouthof theundergroundchamberandimmuredAladdin in thedarkness.伪装成他叔叔的人封住了地下室的入口，把阿拉丁关在黑暗中。
tokeepsomeone or something withincertainlimitsandpreventthem or it fromdevelopingfreely:
限制（发展），桎梏
Constantlyimitatingpastmastersdoes not takecookinganyfurtherforward- it immures it inhistory.不断模仿过去的大师，并不能使烹饪更进一步，而是让其桎梏在历史中。
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(Definition ofimmurefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimmure

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One innocent man was condemned on that account and was immured in a fortress until a true culprit admitted his guilt to a confessor 32 years later.
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I say that toimmurea man for one fifth of his adult life for such offences is worse than transportation.
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I do not imagine that women will be ready toimmurethemselves in a special institution for the purpose of having their hair dressed.
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There is immured in a windowless cell, a prisoner who has lived there in solitary confinement since birth.
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She does this in order to demonstrate the ways in which poetic language is always already implicated in the political and can therefore never be wholly immured in aestheticism.
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Spiritually, they are like men immured in darkness who come out blinking in a strong light.
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One is that solicitors are not always immured in their offices—there is a respectable sprinkling of them here this evening.
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We would not be immuring the standards in the walls of a building one hundred years old.
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There follows a week of complete isolation, in which the farmer and his family are immured in their home.
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We have a large number of people immured in prisons in this country.
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The wider part of the step is immured into the wall and the narrower part finished with a cylindrical element.
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He died from starvation after being immured in the prison walls.
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He died in 1985 and his ashes were immured just outside the crypt.
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Notable are the original ceramic pots which have been immured in the vault of the church, as a way to improve the acoustics.
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A hymn is heard, the sound rising and sinking again into some sort of catacomb, the subterranean cavern in which the dead are immured.
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