PRISON

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

prison I. substantiv

închisoare, temniţă, puşcărie;

state prison închisoare politică;

to send smb. to prison, to put / to throw smb. into prison a trimite pe cineva la închisoare, a arunca pe cineva în închisoare;

to break (out of) prison a evada, a fugi din închisoare.

prison II. verb tranzitiv

1. (poetic) a întemniţa, a arunca în închisoare.

2. (fig.) a închide bine.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Melancholy followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation and was then released from my prison.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

With a beating heart, I tried the door; but I was locked in my prison, and could do nothing.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Two other dead guards marked his trail through the prison to the outer walls, and he had killed with his hands to avoid noise.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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