asylum

亡命、庇護

離れると危険にさらされる人が、国や場所に安全にとどまれるようにする保護。

やさしい英語で： 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.

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

類義語： refuge, sanctuary

よく使う表現： seek asylum, political asylum, grant asylum

精神病院

精神の病気がある人が住み、世話を受けた病院を指す昔の言葉。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： psychiatric hospital, mental hospital

よく使う表現： mental asylum, old asylum, asylum patients