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internment

/in-turn-muhnt/US // ɪnˈtɜrn mənt //UK // (ɪnˈtɜːnmənt) //

拘禁,拘押,拘留,拘留所

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of interning, or confining a person or ship to prescribed limits during wartime: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
    • : the state of being interned; confinement.

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Examples

  • There lie Eddie Lockard and Reuben Everett, the only massacre victims whose graves were marked — likely because they were buried after their families were released from internment sites.

  • What did you learn from your five-year internment in Vietnam?

  • In the episode “Internment,” he reminds Rick of the dangers of slipping into darkness.

  • And the second remark came during the Japanese internment conversation.

  • After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, she was among the tens of thousands Japanese-Americans dispatched to internment camps.

  • He was finally released in 2004, after almost 40 hellish years of brutal internment.

  • None need our help more than the officers and men of those internment camps.

  • To avoid the dreaded internment camp he had successfully passed as a Luxemburger.

  • A once-loved prince of German blood had been frozen out of the navy, and the internment camps were growing like boom towns.

  • Everywhere is dead-lines and permissions and internment camps and persecutions, and all who are not in prison are afraid.

  • Well, amongst these liberated captives was one who told a sad tale of starvation at his internment camp.