| 词汇 | immure |
| 释义 | immure verb[ T ] literaryuk /ɪˈmjʊər/ us /ɪˈmjʊr/ to put someone inside something such as a prison or tomb (= a place where dead bodies are buried) and keep them there: 囚禁在牢房中;嵌在墙内;埋在坟墓里 The aristocracy chose to immure its dead in church vaults or specially constructed mausoleums.贵族选择将逝者安葬在教堂的地窖或专门建造的陵墓中。 The false uncle sealed the mouth of the underground chamber and immured Aladdin in the darkness.伪装成他叔叔的人封住了地下室的入口，把阿拉丁关在黑暗中。 to keep someone or something within certain limits and prevent them or it from developing freely: 限制（发展），桎梏 Constantly imitating past masters does not take cooking any further forward - it immures it in history.不断模仿过去的大师，并不能使烹饪更进一步，而是让其桎梏在历史中。 Putting people in prison at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom bang someone up bar behind barsidiom bird commit imprison imprisonment in custody incarcerate incarceration intern lock pen remand someone in custody restraint rot rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom self-surrender stretch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Limiting and restricting Examples of immureimmure One innocent man was condemned on that account and was immured in a fortress until a true culprit admitted his guilt to a confessor 32 years later. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I say that to immure a man for one fifth of his adult life for such offences is worse than transportation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not imagine that women will be ready to immure themselves in a special institution for the purpose of having their hair dressed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is immured in a windowless cell, a prisoner who has lived there in solitary confinement since birth. She does this in order to demonstrate the ways in which poetic language is always already implicated in the political and can therefore never be wholly immured in aestheticism. Spiritually, they are like men immured in darkness who come out blinking in a strong light. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One is that solicitors are not always immured in their offices—there is a respectable sprinkling of them here this evening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would not be immuring the standards in the walls of a building one hundred years old. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There follows a week of complete isolation, in which the farmer and his family are immured in their home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a large number of people immured in prisons in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The wider part of the step is immured into the wall and the narrower part finished with a cylindrical element. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He died from starvation after being immured in the prison walls. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He died in 1985 and his ashes were immured just outside the crypt. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Notable are the original ceramic pots which have been immured in the vault of the church, as a way to improve the acoustics. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A hymn is heard, the sound rising and sinking again into some sort of catacomb, the subterranean cavern in which the dead are immured. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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