prison

英 ['prɪz(ə)n] 美['prɪzn]

复数: prisons;

prison 监狱，监禁

来自古法语prison,监狱，来自拉丁语prehensionem,抓住，来自prehendere,抓住，握住，词源同prehensile,comprehend.-s,过去分词格。引申动词词义监禁，关押。

prison: prison: [12] Like comprehend, prehensile, etc, prison goes back ultimately to Latin praehendere ‘seize’. From this was derived the noun praehensiō ‘seizure’, later contracted to prēnsiō, which passed into Old French as prisun. By now it had come to be used specifically for ‘imprisonment’, and from this it moved on in due course to the concrete ‘place of imprisonment’ – both senses which entered English from Old French in the 12th century.
=> apprehend, comprehensive, prehensile, prize, reprehensible
prison (n.): early 12c., from Old French prisoun "captivity, imprisonment; prison; prisoner, captive" (11c., Modern French prison), altered (by influence of pris "taken;" see prize (n.2)) from earlier preson, from Vulgar Latin *presionem, from Latin prensionem (nominative prensio), shortening of prehensionem (nominative *prehensio) "a taking," noun of action from past participle stem of prehendere "to take" (see prehensile). "Captivity," hence by extension "a place for captives," the main modern sense.
prison (v.): "to imprison," early 14c., from prison (n.) or Old French prisoner (v.). Related: Prisoned; prisoning.

1. He was returned to prison in 1977 for impersonating a police officer.: 他1977年因冒充警官而再次入狱。

2. In prison they'd taken away his watch and everything he possessed.: 在监狱，他们把他的手表和其他一切东西都搜走了。

3. Williams faces life in prison if convicted of attempted murder.: 如被判谋杀未遂，威廉斯将面临终身监禁。

5. Some have been sentenced to long prison terms after unfair trials.: 有些人被冤判长期徒刑。