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To incarcerate someone is to put them in prison, or to keep them there. It is an official, slightly cold word: news reports, lawyers, and researchers use it; people chatting about a neighbour usually say lock up, send to jail, or put in prison. Arrest is the grabbing; incarcerate is the locking away that follows, or the holding inside. Though actually, speakers sometimes stretch it for drama — incarcerated at home for “stuck inside” — but the real home of the word is a prison. The Latin pieces are in (in) + carcer (a prison). You incarcerate a person, not a crime.
監禁；關進監獄
組成From Medieval Latin incarcerātus, from Latin in- (in) + carcer (a prison) + a verb ending. English added the familiar -ate. First as an adjective (1528), then as a verb (1575).
同家族的字
- incarcerationthe noun: the locking-up, or the time in prison
- carceralan academic adjective: to do with prisons, from the same Latin carcer
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
incarcerateverb/ɪnˈkɑː.səˌɹeɪt/
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To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
- Tolokonnikova has also been an effective public speaker even while incarcerated, but she has spoken out on politics and freedom in general rather than prisoners’ rights.
- In 2021, a judge found that Angola was providing inadequate medical care to its incarcerated population.
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To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
incarcerateadj/ɪnˈkɑː.səˌɹeɪt/
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archaicobsoleteIncarcerated: jailed, imprisoned, confined, shut in.
- Tane and incarcerat, kepit heir an there
- Nor is that radiant force in humane kind / Extinguiſht quite, he that did them create / Can thoſe dull ruſty chains of ſleep unbind, / And rear the ſoul unto her ſristin ſtate: / He can them ſo inlarge and elevate / And ſpreaden out, that they can compaſſe all, / When they no longer be incarcerate / In this dark dungeon, this foul fleſhy wall, / Nor be no longer wedg’d in things corporeall: […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。