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单词 prisoner
释义
prisoner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprɪz.ən.ər/us
/ˈprɪz.ən.ɚ/
B1
apersonwho iskeptinprisonas apunishment:
犯人，囚犯
Prisonersclimbedonto theprisonrooftoprotesttheconditionsinside theprison.犯人们爬上监狱屋顶对监狱里的条件表示抗议。
Synonyms
captive
detainee
inmate
See also
political prisoner
hold/keep/takesomeoneprisoner
C2
tocatchandguardsomeone so that they cannotescape:
监禁，拘押（某人）
Of 10,000troops, 7,000 werekilled,wounded, or taken prisoner.1万人的军队中，有7000人阵亡、受伤或被俘。
Thepilotand severalpassengerswereheldprisoner by thegunmenfor 57hours.飞行员和几名乘客被持枪歹徒扣押了57个小时。
More examples
  • Early thismorning,armedpolicesurroundedahousewhich theythoughtcontainedanescapedprisoner.
  • Cooped up in asmalldarkcell, the prisoner hadn'tseendaylightfor fiveyears.
  • Hundreds of prisonersbeganafastinprotestaboutprisonconditions.
  • Arrangements were made tomovethe prisoners to anotherjail.
  • More thanhalfof all prisonersdischargedare reconvicted within twoyears.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People held in prison
  • captive
  • cellmate
  • co-prisoner
  • con
  • convict
  • dead
  • dead man walkingidiom
  • detainee
  • detenu
  • gaolbird
  • hostage
  • inmate
  • internee
  • jailbird
  • lag
  • lifer
  • political prisoner
  • pow
  • prisoner of conscience
  • prisoner of war

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Putting people in prison

Idiom

take no prisoners
(Definition ofprisonerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prisoner| American Dictionary

prisoner
noun[C]
us
/ˈprɪz·ə·nər,ˈprɪz·nər/
apersonwho iskeptinprisonaspunishment
A prisoner is also someone who is under thecontrolof someoneelseand notphysicallyfree:
Twosecurityguardswereheld/taken prisoner during therobbery.
(Definition ofprisonerfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprisoner

prisoner
There were also improvements in the health care of prisoners and some penal institutions set up specially equipped cells for women giving birth behind bars.
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The cycle is well explained by the prisoner's dilemma game.
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Ironically, confinement of political prisoners helped forge national identity, fuelled opposition to colonialism, and provoked rebellions.
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In addition, they freed prisoners from the opposition party, and in the process 6,500 others managed to escape.
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Such questions are illustrated with reference to discourses about legal rights, the treatment of prisoners, and corruption.
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They include propensities to cooperate in individual or multiparty prisoner's dilemmas when the strictly dominant strategy is to defect.
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According to the selection perspective, parental imprisonment predicts internalizing problems because prisoners' children are already disproportionally disadvantaged, not because parental imprisonment causes problems for children.
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The two have descended into the dungeon and are in the process of digging the prisoner's grave.
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Private companies also profit by contracting to supply food and telephone services to prisoners.
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The opera thus depicts the redemption not merely of the prisoners, but of the entire social universe to which it introduces us.
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The survey included 581 (8.3 per cent) of 6,793 prisoners, housed in 11 of the country's 23 detention centres.
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Repeatedly, warders attempted to engineer a crisis by encouraging prisoners to escape or to start a riot.
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We illustrate this result with the prisoner's dilemma game.
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Often, when we are waiting in traffic, we are prisoners, immobilized, forced to stop and wait.
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The remaining prisoners respond to their fellow inmate's words in a choral passage of mounting excitement.
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Collocationswithprisoner

prisoner

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condemned prisoner
They have been especially concerned about the effect on the staff who had custody of thecondemnedprisoner.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
convicted prisoner
The question of exchanging a convicted prisoner in an open prison with an unconvicted prisoner in a closed prison does not, therefore, arise.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
enemy prisoner
Alito was asked whether anyenemyprisonerof war ever brought a federal habeas corpus case.
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Wikipedia
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