prison

prison

Lieu où des personnes sont enfermées, généralement pour les punir d’un crime ou d’un délit.

En anglais simple : A place where people are kept locked up, usually as punishment for a crime.

• His brother is in prison.
• The guards searched every prison cell.
• She was released from prison last year.

Comment l'utiliser : in prison (He spent five years in prison.); send someone to prison (The judge sent him to prison.)

Synonymes : jail

Expressions courantes : in prison, prison cell, go to prison

emprisonnement, prison

Fait d’être enfermé comme punition, ou période passée ainsi.

En anglais simple : The experience or period of being kept locked up as punishment.

• Prison changed his life.
• She faces prison for stealing the money.
• He hoped to avoid prison.

Synonymes : imprisonment, incarceration

Contraires : freedom

Expressions courantes : face prison, avoid prison, prison sentence

prison

Lieu ou situation qui donne l’impression de ne pouvoir s’échapper ou vivre librement.

En anglais simple : A situation or place that makes you feel unable to escape or live freely.

• Fear had become her prison.
• He felt trapped in a prison of memories.
• Her loneliness was a prison without walls.

Comment l'utiliser : a prison of something (He lived in a prison of fear.)

Synonymes : trap

Expressions courantes : prison of fear, prison of loneliness, prison of something, feel like prison