核心畫面
You can picture prisoner as the person on the inside of a locked door — someone held in a place they cannot walk out of. The first and clearest case is the person in a prison cell, and every other use keeps that same shape: a person, a boundary they cannot cross, and no key of their own.
可以想成一個站在上鎖那道門「裡面」的人：他被留在某個地方，而門把不在他手上。最清楚的例子就是牢房裡的犯人；其他用法都…更多收起
可以想成一個站在上鎖那道門「裡面」的人：他被留在某個地方，而門把不在他手上。最清楚的例子就是牢房裡的犯人；其他用法都保留同一個形狀——一個人、一道他跨不出去的界線、而鑰匙不在自己身上。差別只在於那道門是真的鐵門，還是抓住他的別人，甚至只是他自己的處境。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。
prisonernoun/ˈpɹɪzənə/
- 1
A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
- Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.
- The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.
- 2
Any person held against their will.
- And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords / And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, / Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue / For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- 3
A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.
- I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God.
- I'm a prisoner of your love.
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。