- 1（戰時／政治）拘禁、拘留、收容。不是實習 internship。
Internment is the practice of keeping people in prison-like camps during a war or for political reasons, without charging them with a crime. The people held are . Governments have used internment when they were afraid of a whole group — not after a trial for each person.
It is a formal, heavy word, used in history and in talk about human rights. A well-known example in US history is the internment of Japanese Americans in the Second World War. The point of the word is the missing trial: internment is not quite the same as imprisonment after a court has found someone guilty.
Though actually, internment is not internship. Internship is the job. Internment is being locked up. One extra syllable, a completely different life. Students who have only met intern as “實習生” walk straight into this trap.
組成From intern (“to hold someone in this way”) + -ment (the name of the action or practice).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
internmentnoun/ɪnˈtɝnmənt/
- 1
The state of being imprisoned, usually without trial.
- Policies that favor criminalization and internment are promoted over support for social transformation and equity.
- Nevertheless, the economic and emotional effects of the internment were severe, and the United States Government has yet to make good on its promises of reparations.
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