asylum

asilo

Protección que permite permanecer a salvo en un país o lugar cuando salir de él supondría un peligro.

En inglés sencillo: Protection allowing someone to stay safely in a country or place when leaving would put them in danger.

• She applied for asylum.
• The government granted asylum to several refugees.
• He sought asylum after receiving threats in his home country.

Cómo se usa: grant asylum to someone (The country granted asylum to the journalist.); seek asylum in a place (They sought asylum in a neighbouring country.)

Sinónimos: refuge, sanctuary

Expresiones frecuentes: seek asylum, political asylum, grant asylum

manicomio, hospital psiquiátrico

Nombre antiguo de un hospital donde vivían y recibían atención personas con enfermedades mentales.

En inglés sencillo: An old word for a hospital where people with mental illnesses lived and received care.

• The old asylum is now a museum.
• She was sent to an asylum in 1890.
• The book describes conditions in nineteenth-century asylums.

Sinónimos: psychiatric hospital, mental hospital

Expresiones frecuentes: mental asylum, old asylum, asylum patients