pris‧on‧er S3 W2 / prɪz ə nə $ -ər / 名词 [可数名词]
1 someone who is kept in a prison as a legal punishment for a crime or while they are waiting for their trial → guard , imprison :
Relationships between the staff and the prisoners are good.
Prisoners here only serve short sentences.
remand prisoner British English (= someone who is in prison waiting for their trial )
The organization is arguing for the release of political prisoners (= people in prison because of their political opinions ) .
2 someone who is taken by force and kept somewhere 同义词 captive
hold/keep somebody prisoner
The guerrillas kept her prisoner for three months.
He was being held prisoner.
Our pilot was taken prisoner .
The army advanced, taking 200,000 prisoners .
3 someone who is in a place or situation from which they cannot escape :
He is a prisoner of his own past.
COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + prisoner
a remand prisoner British English (= one who is waiting for their trial ) A prison governor is refusing to accept any more remand prisoners.
a condemned prisoner (= one who is going to be punished by being killed ) There is an appeal process for condemned prisoners.
a political prisoner (= one who is in prison because of their political opinions ) They demanded that the military government free all political prisoners.
an escaped prisoner Soldiers arrived, looking for escaped prisoners.
动词
release/free a prisoner Hundreds of prisoners were released.
THESAURUS
prisoner someone who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their trial : Prisoners may be locked in their cells for twenty-two hours a day. | a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder
convict especially written someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison. Convict is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions, or in the 短语 an escaped convict : The convicts were sent from England to Australia. | Police were hunting for an escaped convict. | Low-risk convicts help to fight forest fires and clean up public lands.
inmate someone who is kept in a prison or a mental hospital : Some inmates are allowed to have special privileges. | He was described by a fellow inmate as a quiet man.
captive especially literary someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting. Captive is a rather formal word which is used especially in literature : Their objective was to disarm the enemy and release the captives. | She was held captive (= kept as a prisoner ) in the jungle for over three years.
prisoner of war a soldier, member of the navy etc who is caught by the enemy during a war and kept in the enemy’s country : My grandad was a prisoner of war in Germany. | They agreed to release two Iranian prisoners of war.
hostage someone who is kept somewhere as a prisoner, in order to force people to agree to do something, for example in order to get money or to achive a political aim : Diplomats are continuing their efforts to secure the release of the hostages. | The US hostages were held in Tehran for over a year.
detainee/internee someone who is kept in a prison, usually because of their political views and often without a trial : In some cases, political detainees have been beaten or mistreated. | 23,531 people passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962, including 14,647 political internees. | the detainees at Guantanamo Bay