immure

1 As long as there is a penitentiary, within the walls of which a human being is immured, we are not a perfectly civilized people.

2 She spoke wistfully of freedom, but she was effectively immured.

3 They escorted me to a room immured among poor houses.

4 Almost all of his work was painted for king and court and stayed exactly where it was made, long after his death in 1660, immured in the Spanish royal palaces.

5 I am becoming like them myself in a preference of the healthy and cheerful employment without doors, to the being immured within four brick walls.

6 Forty-six people perished, many immured by the unrelenting gridiron just below the water’s surface.

7 This man's father has immured three Emperors, and he himself is preparing to depose a fourth.

8 Lying on the sofa, I became slowly immured in the concrete reality of this edifice and of its facts.

9 Winnie, the central character — really the only one — is immured in earth up to her waist.

10 Whether he’s an exemplar of patient fortitude or of contemptible cowardice, Assange, 44, has managed to frustrate the British and Swedish governments by immuring himself within the embassy, which is treated as Ecuadorean territory.

11 Otto was still immured in the summer-house.

12 Sadly, the current production at Pacific Resident Theatre is also immured in inaction.

13 We’re in that place on the human map too often avoided by American novelists: poverty, the subtle prison where society’s marginalized are immured, pick your particular referent.

14 But it also sounds, marvelously, like a geographical location in which a character from a Paul Bowles novel might be immured.

15 The key question is whether the immured duke, a victim of 16th-century religious wars, can trust either his unstable cell-mate, Gribaud, or the Protestant spy who has come to aid his escape.

16 The man was immured in a windowless prison cell.

那人被监禁在没有窗户的小牢房里.

17 The second chamber, known as The Reserved Cabinet, contains the famous Venus of the Capitol—a Greek statue, found immured in a wall upon the Quirinal.

18 Can it, can it be, my lord and husband, That so young, thou, reckless, would’st immure me?

19 Else in earliest youth thy friend might lose thee: Thou might’st be immured in the foundation!”

20 The two boys, sawn off above the elbow, appear immured in the plinth – suffering, as it were, for their mother's art.

1 禁闭

durance wall confine constrain incarcerate coop mew mure encage close shut cage straiten lock into confinement intern shut away wall up prison chamber cramp lock-in jankers embar

2 隐居

anchoretic secret cloister recluse cloistral privacy sequestration seclude

3 使隐居

seclude

4 闭门不出

housebound

5 幽闭

cloister

6 囚禁

captivity bondage fetter durance jail encage cage

7 监禁

custodial chain commitment prison custody restraint imprisonment confinement incarceration lockup duress durance enjail encage PEN lag confine restrain imprison incarcerate steek lay fast cage in detention jail chokey commit constrain mure close bond secure detain lock into put under restraint put in ward ward porridge coop mew captivity hold wall up retention rap bondage poundage duresse pen jug brig slough gaol pinfold stretch bar stow embar

8 禁锢

restraint durance chain lock pound