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单词 dungeon
释义
dungeon
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʌn.dʒən/us
/ˈdʌn.dʒən/
anundergroundprison,especiallyin acastle
（尤指城堡中的）地牢
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(Definition ofdungeonfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • After he had been thrown into prison some one had put venomous serpents into his dungeon, but strange to say, after a time they had died, leaving him uninjured.
  • Each band of traitors as they arrived was seized and cast into a dungeon.
  • He led her through many winding passages, opening heavy iron gates, until they at length reached the deep dungeons which are found beneath this castle.
  • The same night eight masked men descended to the dungeon where the prisoners lay: they believed at that moment that the fatal hour had arrived for all.
  • While peering into the gloom, however, he stumbled and fell headlong into the dungeon below.

dungeon| American Dictionary

dungeon
noun[C]
us
/ˈdʌn·dʒən/
anundergroundprison
(Definition ofdungeonfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdungeon

dungeon
The two have descended into thedungeonand are in the process of digging the prisoner's grave.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Who are cast into dungeons, and treated and tried as traitors?
From theCambridge English Corpus
The recurrent images of dungeons, together with an escapist fondness for exotic foreign locations, tell their own significant story.
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For her, the scene of their marriage is configured not as adungeon, but as a vast empty space.
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The unhealthy symbiosis between this ' unmanned' hero and ' unsexed' heroine drives the action and creates the horrific atmosphere of thedungeonscene.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One thought one knew him, and then - all of a sudden - by some response, or silence, or unexpected decision he would disconcert one, to escape and retreat into hisdungeon.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Downstairs in this building, almost in the dungeons, we organised such a meeting and had a discussion on the subject.
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The buildings are not necessarily deep, dirty dungeons covered with wet straw.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I was in one of these dungeons for seven days.
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In that case, that would mean returning the victim to the torturer'sdungeon.
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You cannot imagine the damp, wretched, windowless dungeons in which people have to live, or the material, moral or medical consequences of such habitation.
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It would not be possible to open the dungeons to visitors without undermining the security of the prison.
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In fact, some of them are almost like dungeons.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I know that in my own village the police headquarters at one time could only be called dungeons.
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It is light and airy and not down in the dungeons where one normally finds radiotherapy treatment in hospitals.
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