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.
双语例句
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。
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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。
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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。
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4. The prison's inmates are being kept in their cells.
这个监狱的犯人被关在他们的囚室里。
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5. Some have been sentenced to long prison terms after unfair trials.
