Imprison

(verb.) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; 'The suspects were imprisoned without trial'; 'the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life'.

(verb.) confine as if in a prison; 'His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone'.

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• Be it so; drag me away--I return; confine me, imprison me, still I escape, and come here. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I was also directed to handle rebels within our lines without gloves, to imprison them, or to expel them from their homes and from our lines. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I have been here three days, continued Kantos Kan, but I have not yet found where Dejah Thoris is imprisoned. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Shortly he printed another from the same source and was imprisoned three months for his pains. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Could it be possible that the sense of unreality in which he felt himself imprisoned had communicated itself to his wife? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Do you know that I am the man whom you have been imprisoning and robbing? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her mother was guiltless of imprisoning her in the Asylum. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In the can system the water is frozen from all four sides to the center, and imprisons in the center any air bubbles or impurities that may exist in the water. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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