imprisonment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 监禁， 徒刑，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Imprisonment was not enough to conceal Captain Nemo's projects from us, sleep was more necessary.
-- Had he not himself said from the beginning, in the firmest manner, that the secret of his life exacted from him our lasting imprisonment on board the Nautilus?
-- I could see that this lengthened imprisonment was weighing upon him, and I felt that rage was burning within him.
-- The remembrance of that imprisonment in the ice was effaced from our minds.
-- My nerves were somewhat calmer, but in my excited brain I saw over again all my existence on board the Nautilus; every incident, either happy or unfortunate, which had happened since my disappearance from the Abraham Lincoln the submarine hunt, the Torres Straits, the savages of Papua, the running ashore, the coral cemetery, the passage of Suez, the Island of Santorin, the Cretan diver, Vigo Bay, Atlantis, the iceberg, the South Pole, the imprisonment in the ice, the fight among the poulps, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and the horrible scene of the vessel sunk with all her crew.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Inasmuch," resumed the judge, "as the English law protects equally and sternly the religions of the Indian people, and as the man Passepartout has admitted that he violated the sacred pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay, on the 20th of October, I condemn the said Passepartout to imprisonment for fifteen days and a fine of three hundred pounds."
-- "And inasmuch," continued the judge, "as it is not proved that the act was not done by the connivance of the master with the servant, and as the master in any case must be held responsible for the acts of his paid servant, I condemn Phileas Fogg to a week's imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty pounds."
-- John Bunsby had requested his passengers to go below; but this imprisonment in so narrow a space, with little air, and the boat bouncing in the gale, was far from pleasant.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After eight months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others tak-en out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was the watch-woman at a flag-station, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for negligently causing an accident on the railroad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That swindling Pumblechook, exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him to illustrate his remarks.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another piece of shut-in air; without weight or substance, only a sense of intolerable papery imprisonment in nothingness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be readily conceived that after an imprisonment of forty-seven days, in a dark and miserable tunnel it was with infinite delight that I breathed this saline air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that long imprisonment here, and in her own long confinement to her room, did his mother find a balance to be struck?
-- There, were some who, in pure meanness of spirit, cringed and bowed before the enriched Collegian and his family; there, were others who did so really because their eyes, accustomed to the gloom of their imprisonment and poverty, could not support the light of such bright sunshine.
-- Imprisonment began to tell upon him.
-- After what he had known of the influences of imprisonment within the four small walls of the very room he occupied, this consciousness made him afraid of himself.
-- 'Not a very old prisoner that!I judge by your looks, brave sir, that imprisonment will subdue your blood much sooner than it softens this hot wine.
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