asylum
英 [əˈsaɪləm] 美 [əˈsaɪləm]

n.

避难所；庇护；政治避难；精神病院

变形

复数：asylums

双语释义

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

asylum[ ə'sailəm ]

• n.
  • a shelter from danger or hardship

    同义词：refugesanctuary

  • a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

    同义词：mental hospitalpsychiatric hospitalmental institutioninstitutionmental homeinsane asylum

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• seek asylum寻求政治避难
• deny sb's asylum拒绝给某人庇护
• apply for asylum申请政治避难
• ask for political asylum请求政治避难

形容词+～

• blind and dumb asylum盲哑院
• political asylum政治避难
• proprietary asylum私立救济院

名词+～

• founding asylum育婴堂
• orphan asylum孤儿院

～+介词

• asylum for lepers麻风院
• asylum for the aged养老院
• asylum of political refugees政治难民的避难处

词组短语

political asylum政治庇护，政治避难

insane asylum精神病院

lunatic asylum精神病院，疯人院

mental asylum精神病院

双语例句

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。

权威例句

The Discovery of the Asylum
The discovery of the asylum: Social order and disorder in the new public
The discovery of the asylum: Social order and disorder in the new public
The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic
The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU
The ‘external dimension’ of EU immigration and asylum policy
2009 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons
The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU – By J. Huysmans
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. By Edward Shorter
Anxiety, depression and PTSD in asylum-seekers: assocations with pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors.