n. 1.(孤儿等的)收容所,养育院。 2.避难所。 3.【国际法】庇护(权)。 短语和例子 a lunatic asylum精神病院。 a blind and dumb asylum盲哑院。 a foundling [an orphan] asylum 孤儿院,育婴堂。 on asylum for lepers 麻疯院。 asylum for the aged 养老院。 He sought asylum in the church. 他到教堂去避难。 grant asylum to 给予庇护。
a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person 同义词:mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum,
a shelter from danger or hardship 同义词:refuge, sanctuary,
例句与用法
1.
We'll start an asylum for old-time people . 我们要给老一代人准备一个避难所。
2.
Nobody here knows that i was brought up in an asylum . 这里没人知道我在孤儿院长大。
3.
Today's asylum might be the dungeon of tomorrow . 今天的庇护所可能会变成明天的地牢。
4.
He sought asylum in the church . 他到教堂去避难。
5.
The asylum cannot be responsible any longer for your support . 孤儿院不能再负担你的费用。
6.
She might be safer if we could give her asylum somewhere . 如果我们能够给她找个地方躲难,说不定要安全些。
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The country of initial asylum may be reluctant to accept such long-term aid . 最初避难国将会不愿意接受长期的发展援助。
8.
They retired to repose, accordingly, and all was silent in this asylum of iniquity . 于是他们都休息了,在这个罪恶的渊薮中一切归于岑寂。
9.
Half hidden even in winter by its embosoming trees, lay the municipal lunatic asylum . 即使在冬天也被环绕着的树林半遮半掩着的是一所市立精神病院。
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If you put them in an asylum, not all the asylums in the world would be large enough . 如果把这些人都关进疯人院,那么全世界所有的疯人院也是盛不下的。