asylum

asile

Protection permettant de rester en sécurité dans un pays ou un lieu quand le quitter serait dangereux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : grant asylum to someone (The country granted asylum to the journalist.); seek asylum in a place (They sought asylum in a neighbouring country.)

Synonymes : refuge, sanctuary

Expressions courantes : seek asylum, political asylum, grant asylum

asile, hôpital psychiatrique

Ancien nom d'un hôpital où vivaient et étaient soignées des personnes atteintes de maladies mentales.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : psychiatric hospital, mental hospital

Expressions courantes : mental asylum, old asylum, asylum patients