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gulag

/goo-lahg/US // ˈgu lɑg //UK // (ˈɡuːlæɡ) //

古拉格,古拉格岛,古拉格监狱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union.
    • : a Soviet forced-labor camp.
    • : any prison or detention camp, especially for political prisoners.

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Examples

  • A former lover of Shostakovich, the writer Galina Serebryakova, disappeared into the Gulag camps.

  • When I wrote the novel about the Gulag, House of Meetings, the name Stalin only appears in a footnote very early on.

  • I am sure that no one in a Gulag or Kanz-lager would have turned their nose up at some fresh poultry.

  • It was post-Stalin, and they were unthreatened by the gulag, but censored and surveilled.

  • Inside of prison, even our privileged American prison, scarcity is just as much of an issue as it was in the Gulag.

  • Gular suture: the line of division between the gulag or throat and the gene or cheeks.

  • They cruised into a private gate, away from the militarized gulag that fronted Miami International.

  • In 1974, after publishing Gulag Archipelago (about life in Soviet prison camps), the writer was exiled from his homeland.

  • Gulo-mental: includes the region covered by the gulag and mentum.