| 词汇 | captivity |
| 释义 | captivity noun[ U ] uk /kæpˈtɪv.ə.ti/ us /kæpˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/ the situation in which a person or animal is kept somewhere and is not allowed to leave: 关押;囚禁 All the hostages, when released from captivity, looked remarkably fit and well.人质被释放时看上去居然都很健康。 Animals bred in captivity would probably not survive if they were released into the wild.在樊笼里饲养的动物如果被放归到野生环境中很可能无法生存。 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 Examples of captivitycaptivity If such basic moral rights were also reaffirmed by law, cetaeceans would then receive sanctioned protection from hunting, captivity, wounding, habitat threats, or invasive experimentation. The captivity accounts reproduce similar images of the ' barbarian other ', representations nourished as much by ignorance as by prejudice. Some specimens were maintained in captivity for more than 40 days. The natural longevity of the mongoose is not known, but some individuals have been reported to survive up to 13 years in captivity. Oxpeckers are difficult to propagate in captivity and reintroduction programmes were based on translocation of birds that were captured in the wild. Some rays were kept in captivity for more than 90 days. After 50 weeks of captivity, the ship finally broke free. Instead, his narrative ends with a bitter truism: everyone is alone, whether in captivity or liberty. Pheasants are usually subject to routine antiparasitic treatment when reared in captivity. Several lines of evidence indicate that genetic adaptation to captivity is a serious issue in conservation. They usually disappear from the blood of rabbits held in captivity after a few days, but occasionally persist for a month or longer period. Such questions, particularly for animals that we study in captivity, are critical if we are to begin to understand the pragmatics of animal culture. The two movements on the writ - into captivity and out - continued into the antebellum era side by side, contributing to the chaos overall. This enables us to assess the potential of published captivity narratives and evaluate them as historically contemporary accounts of seemingly alien societies. Suffering from delusions, she fell into captivity as an illegal alien in one of the detention centres for 'refugees' in the desert. 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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