captivity是什么意思？

captivity

英[kæpˈtɪvəti] 美[kæpˈtɪvɪti]

• n. 被俘，囚禁，束缚；

例句

• A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see. 动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
• They managed to draw him out from him a full account of his escape from captivity. 他们设法让他详述了他是怎样在囚禁后逃出来的。
• It is often difficult to get animals to mate in captivity. 常常很难使被关的动物交配。
• the living death of captivity 生不如死的囚禁生活
• The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity. 大多数仓鸮都是笼养的。
• Prisoners sometimes ease their captivity by endowing their jailers with extraordinary qualities. 犯人有时表现出非常好的品德以取悦狱卒,以此改善他们的境遇.
• He was able to deal with his captivity by maintaining a high degree of anger about the unfairness of his capture. 他对自己不公正的被俘极为怨愤，正是这股怨愤使他得以熬过囚禁生涯。
• He was held in captivity for three years. 他被监禁了三年。
• Von Arnim was brought through Algiers on his way to captivity. 阿纳姆被送往俘虏营途经阿尔及尔.
• If someone has been in captivity for a long time, he will have changed as a result of his experience... 如果某人遭到长时间囚禁，他会因为他的经历而有所改变。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  囚禁;关押;拘禁
  Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
  例句
  The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity... 大多数仓鸮都是笼养的。 An American missionary was released today after more than two months of captivity... 一位美国传教士在被关押两个多月后于今天获释。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  监禁；囚禁；关押
  the living death of captivity 生不如死的囚禁生活 It is often difficult to get animals to mate in captivity. 常常很难使被关的动物交配。 They managed to draw him out from him a full account of his escape from captivity. 他们设法让他详述了他是怎样在囚禁后逃出来的。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. 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"
  2. the state of being a slave;
  "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare