prisoner

名词 n.
/ˈpɹɪzənə/|/ˈpɹɪznə/    /ˈpɹɪzənɚ/|/ˈpɹɪznɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
    — Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.
  2. Any person held against their will.
    — And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords / And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, / Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue / For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
  3. A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.
    — I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God.

词形变化

prisoners plural

词源

From Middle English prisoner, from Old French prisonier (compare Medieval Latin prisōnārius), equivalent to prison + -er.
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