imprisonment
監禁,下獄,坐牢
imprisonment
n 1: putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
2: the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity
until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers";
"his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he
practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle
dungeon" [syn: captivity, incarceration, immurement]
3: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a
prison) [syn: internment]