prison

prisión, cárcel

Lugar donde se mantiene encerradas a personas, normalmente como castigo por un delito.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: in prison (He spent five years in prison.); send someone to prison (The judge sent him to prison.)

Sinónimos: jail

Expresiones frecuentes: in prison, prison cell, go to prison

encarcelamiento, prisión

Experiencia o período de estar encerrado como castigo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: imprisonment, incarceration

Antónimos: freedom

Expresiones frecuentes: face prison, avoid prison, prison sentence

prisión, cárcel

Lugar o situación que hace sentir que no se puede escapar ni vivir con libertad.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: a prison of something (He lived in a prison of fear.)

Sinónimos: trap

Expresiones frecuentes: prison of fear, prison of loneliness, prison of something, feel like prison