Asylum
[ ə'saɪləm ]
第5级
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n. 避难所;庇护;政治避难;精神病院;
💡 词根助记
asyl养育院+um名词后缀，表场所 →避难所，收容所
📝 例句
Today's asylum might be the dungeon of tomorrow.
今天的庇护所可能会变成明天的地牢。
Nobody here knows that I was brought up in an asylum.
这里没人知道我在孤儿院长大。
The abandoned children were put into an asylum.
被遗弃的儿童送进了孤儿院。
give [seek, ask for] asylum
给予 [寻求] 庇护
The asylum cannot be responsible any longer for your support.
孤儿院不能再负担你的费用。
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ a-一,sylum-slum贫民窟:贫民窟是穷人的逼难所
※谐音“恶塞乐牧”:恶霸在边塞乐于放牧,因为可以避难
※ as-当,y-拼音“遇”,lum-拼音“流氓”:当遇上流氓时想躲避的地方就是避难所
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
asylum
n
1
(a) [U] safety; refuge 安全; 庇护
ask for/be granted political asylum, ie protection given to a political refugee by a foreign country 请求[准予]政治避难（外国给予政治难民的保护）.
(b) [C] place of safety or refuge 庇护所; 避难所.
2 [C] (dated 旧) hospital for the care of mentally ill or destitute people 精神病院; 收容所.
🔁 扩展释义
*[ә'sailәm]n. 庇护, 收容所【医】 养育院
📖 同为「GRE」词汇
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Safety first.
安全第一。
I want to welcome you all here for the fourth annual meeting of our Asian sales staff.
欢迎所有来参加我们亚洲推销员第四届年会的代表。
At this, the police pointed out ironically that this would hardly be necessary as the men were already under arrest.
警察听后讥讽地说，这大可不必，因为他俩已被逮捕了。