学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2304-incarcerate

今天我们要学的词是 incarcerate¹. Incarcerate 动词，意思是监禁。The U.S. federal government spends $7 billion a year to incarcerate about 200,000 inmates². 美国联邦政府每年支出70亿美元，用于监禁大约20万名囚犯。美国人口只占全球人口总数的百分之五，囚犯人数却占全球囚犯总数的百分之25。The President of the American Bar Association, William Hubbard, recently claimed that we over-incarcerate in this country. 美国律师协会会长哈巴德最近说，美国存在过份监禁的问题。好的，今天我们学习的词是 incarcerate, incarcerate, incarcerate...

1 incarcerate   

v.监禁，禁闭

参考例句：

• Why do you incarcerate yourself in the room every afternoon?你为何每天下午将自己关在房间里？
• Many people think that it is wrong to incarcerate criminals in confined quarters for as long as thirty years.很多人认为把罪犯监禁在禁闭营里达30年之久是不对的。

2 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》