asylum

英[ə'saɪləm] 美[ə'saɪləm]
  • n. 收容所；避难所；（政治）庇护；精神病院
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星级词汇:
  • asylum n.收容所；避难所；（政治）庇护；精神病院

详细释义

    n. (名词)
    1. [U](政治)庇护,避难 protection that a government gives to people who have left their own country, usually because they were in danger for political reasons
    2. [C]精神病院 hospital where people who were mentally ill could be cared for, often for a long time

英英释义

Noun:
  1. a shelter from danger or hardship

  2. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

双语例句

1. Fewer than 7% of asylum seekers are accepted as political refugees.
寻求避难者中有不到7%的人被视作政治难民。

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2. He applied for asylum in 1987 after fleeing the police back home.
1987年他在本国逃脱警察追捕后，就申请了政治庇护。

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3. France had agreed to his request for political asylum.
法国已经同意了他寻求政治庇护的请求。

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4. The government divides asylum-seekers into economic migrants and genuine refugees.
政府把寻求避难者划分为经济移民与真正的难民。

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5. Mendoza is here pending his request for political asylum.
门多萨在要求获得政治庇护之前一直呆在这里。

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.
      这儿是一家照顾精神病患者和赤贫人员的收容所。
    2. We'll start an asylum for old-time people.
      我们要给老一代人准备一个避难所。
    3. The people ask for political asylum.
      人们请求政治避难。
    4. He was soon committed to an insane asylum.
      不久他就给送进了疯人院。
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. He sought asylum in the church.
      他到教堂避难。
    2. The government gave asylum to some extremists from across the border.
      政府给予那些越过国境来的极端主义者以政治庇护。
    3. During the war that followed,Britain gave asylum to many exiles from different lands.
      在后来的战争时期,英国让许多来自不同国家的流亡者避难。
    4. Asylums are now called mental hospitals.
      疯人院现在叫精神病医院。
    5. They put him into an asylum.
      他们把他送到收容院。

用法讲解

n. (名词)
asylum, shelter
  • 这组词都有“能躲避威胁或打扰的安全地方或状态”的意思。其区别是：
  • asylum特指为躲避抓捕或掠劫的人提供庇护的避难所。shelter常指可以暂时受到保护、可防止有害的人或物侵犯的躲避处。
    • 用作名词 (n.)
    动词+～ 形容词+～ 名词+～ ～+介词

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