prison

刑務所

通常、犯罪の罰として人を閉じ込めておく場所。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： in prison (He spent five years in prison.); send someone to prison (The judge sent him to prison.)

類義語： jail

よく使う表現： in prison, prison cell, go to prison

服役、投獄

罰として閉じ込められること、またはその期間。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： imprisonment, incarceration

反対語： freedom

よく使う表現： face prison, avoid prison, prison sentence

牢獄

逃げられない、自由に生きられないと感じさせる場所や状況。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： a prison of something (He lived in a prison of fear.)

類義語： trap

よく使う表現： prison of fear, prison of loneliness, prison of something, feel like prison