imprison

verb

1. 监禁；关押
   to put sb in a prison or another place from which they cannot escape
   1. They were imprisoned for possession of drugs.
      他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。
   2. Some young mothers feel imprisoned in their own homes.
      有些年轻的母亲感到待在家里如同坐牢。

1. VERB 关押;监禁
   If someone is imprisoned, they are locked up or kept somewhere, usually in prison as a punishment for a crime or for political opposition.
   1. The local priest was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of anti-state agitation...
      当地牧师由于受到煽动反对政府的指控而被监禁 18 个月。
   2. Dutch colonial authorities imprisoned him for his part in the independence movement.
      荷兰殖民当局因他参加独立运动而把他关押了起来。

1. The local priest was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of anti-state agitation
   当地牧师由于受到煽动反对政府的指控而被监禁18个月。
2. Dutch colonial authorities imprisoned him for his part in the independence movement.
   荷兰殖民当局因他参加独立运动而把他关押了起来。
3. Out of life he had captured something big and attempted to imprison it in the story.
   他在生活中把握住了某种重大的东西，要把它写进他的小说。
4. This body you may imprison, my heart you can't confine.
   你能禁闭我的身，你关不住我的心。
5. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
   就像现在，我的声音传向世界各地无数人们的耳中，传向无数的绝望的人们：男人，女人，孩子。所有在这个折磨和禁锢无辜者的体制下承受牺牲的人们。
6. You can imprison my body, but not my mind.
   你可以禁锢我的身体，却束缚不了我的心。
7. Confidence implies a break& through from reserve, the bursting of the bonds which imprison an unquiet heart.
   信任意味着打破限制、摧毁那种禁锢一个不平静心灵的枷锁。
8. I imprison my soul in a flash, everything becomes so pale.
   我禁锢了我的一切，灵魂在一瞬间变得如此苍白。
9. The conditions that imprison the industrial worker today.
   束缚现今产业工人的种种条件。
10. They probably wouldn't imprison me but they would fine me.
    他们可能不会把我关起来，但是会要罚我款。
11. Civil rights groups argue that the bill is an historic threat to liberty because it expands the authority of the president to order the military to imprison suspects without charge or trial.
    权益团体说，该预算案扩大了总统的权力，使总统可以命令军方在不经过起诉和审判的情况下囚禁嫌疑人，这是对公民自由的历史性的威胁。
12. Threaten him, imprison him, torture him, kill him: you will not induce him to betray his country.
    威胁他，监禁他，拷打他，处死他：这些都不能使他背叛自己的国家。
13. There are thunderous explosions, fierce solar winds, and forces so strong that they imprison even light.
    有雷鸣般的爆炸和猛烈的太阳风，威力之大，甚至能阻碍光的传播。
14. Their purpose is not to imprison you and bind you to each other; their purpose is to help you to grow with each other.
    婚姻的意图，不是让你们彼此囚禁和束缚，而是让你们彼此帮助，共同成长。
15. If love me, please imprison me!
    如果爱我，请把我囚禁！
16. Utterly demand from the government that it would vigorously investigate, fine and imprison those caught in health care system fraud.
    从政府的根本需求上，它会积极调查，罚款和监禁那些存在于卫生保健系统中的欺诈。
17. The effect of this one is going to imprison you for life.
    而这件事的影响力则会让你被终身监禁。
18. They won't imprison him for a first offence.
    因为他是初犯，他们不会因此而监禁他。
19. Tim: Then, we'll have to fine him or imprison him in the broom closet.
    提姆：那我们就必须罚他钱，或把他关进打扫工具间。
20. Person freedom is the person that points to a citizen ( include spirit and body) do not suffer imprison illegally, ransack, cross-question, reach encroachment freedom.
    人身自由是指公民的人身（包括精神和肉体）不受非法拘禁、搜查、审问、及侵犯的自由。
21. He is Imprison by the secret police for six month
    他被秘密警察关押了6个月
22. Washington telling Beijing whom to imprison could also invoke more accusations of imperialism.
    如果华盛顿在将谁关进监狱的问题上对北京指手划脚，还可能招致更多对其帝国主义行为的指责。
23. Roosevelt didn't imprison Upton Sinclare. I wish China well, and hope they can make a country like beautiful Germany, and not something out of a horror movie.
    罗斯福没有监禁厄普顿。辛克莱。我希望中国也不要，我希望他们可以把国家建设成像德国一样美丽，而不是像演恐怖大片一样。
24. They exonerate people from personal responsibility, and imprison them in circumstances and the victim mentality(" It's not my fault I lost"), the result being a kind of civic death.
    他们使大家推卸个人的责任，让人们陷身于客观环境与牺牲者心理（我输了，这不是我的过错）不能自拔，结果则是一种公民道德的沦丧。
25. A man, who killed an abortion doctor in USA, is facing life imprison.
    美国一男子因枪杀堕胎医生，被判终身监禁。
26. The police even threatened to imprison me if I didn't stop selling.
    警方甚至威胁我，如果我还去卖面条，就把我关进监狱。
27. To put in fetters or shackles; imprison.
    逮捕给某人戴上镣铐；把某人逮捕入狱。
28. More recently, the court ruled that a state generally cannot revoke a defendant's probation and imprison him for failing to pay a fine if he is unable to do so.
    即便最近，最高法院还裁定任何州通常都不能撤销被告人的缓刑，更不能由于其不能支付罚金而将其投进监狱。
29. First, the man should sell the possessions that imprison him.
    首先，他要变卖一切捆缚他心灵的财物。

  imprison immure intern jail【导航词义：监禁，关押】

  imprison v. 监禁

〔辨析〕较正式用词，指将某人关入监狱或关押在某处，通常用被动语态。

  immure v. 〈正式，文〉监禁，禁闭

〔辨析〕指将某人关在某处不许其离开。

  intern v. 拘留，扣押

〔辨析〕指出于政治原因或在战争时期不加审讯就扣押某人，通常用被动语态。

  jail v. 监禁，拘留

〔辨析〕指将某人关入监狱，通常用被动语态。

verb

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
   1. The suspects were imprisoned without trial
   2. the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

   Synonym:    incarceratelagimmureput behind barsjailjuggaolput awayremand

2. confine as if in a prison
   1. His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own hous