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 asylum [ә'sailәm]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 庇护, 收容所

[医] 养育院


  1. Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.
    这儿是一家精神病院。
  2. The people ask for political asylum.
    人们请求政治避难。
  3. A church, school, hospital, asylum, or prison is an institution.
    教堂，学校，医院，收容所或监狱皆属公共机构。


asylum
[ noun ]
  1. a shelter from danger or hardship

    2. <noun.artifact>
  2. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

    3. <noun.artifact>


Asylum \A*sy"lum\, n.; pl. E. {Asylums}, L. {Asyla}. [L. asylum,
Gr. ?, fr. ? exempt from spoliation, inviolable; 'a priv. + ?
right of seizure.]
1. A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where
criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they
could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.

So sacred was the church to some, that it had the
right of an asylum or sanctuary. --Ayliffe.

Note: The name was anciently given to temples, altars,
statues of the gods, and the like. In later times
Christian churches were regarded as asylums in the same
sense.

2. Any place of retreat and security.

Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold
bosom. --Southey.

3. An institution for the protection or relief of some class
of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an
asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a
lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

  1. Four Afghan air force officers flew a government helicopter into Pakistan today and asked for political asylum for their crew, the Defense Ministry said.
  2. The United States has routinely denied asylum to refugees from oppression in countries it considers friendly, while granting asylum to those fleeing Communist governments, Amnesty International and congressional critics charged Wednesday.
  3. The United States has routinely denied asylum to refugees from oppression in countries it considers friendly, while granting asylum to those fleeing Communist governments, Amnesty International and congressional critics charged Wednesday.
  4. We don't even have enough housing for our young people." On Oct. 3, the first anniversary of reunification, three local youths threw a Molotov cocktail through a ground-floor window of the Huenxe asylum home.
  5. At the Port Isabel Service Processing Center, where an influx of asylum applicants was expected, giant tents were pitched to house detainees and dozens of typewriters were shipped to process applications.
  6. A Polish sailor who is seeking political asylum says he fears for his life if he's deported, even though an American judge doesn't think the newly liberalized Polish government poses any threat.
  7. It was never illuminating, only distracting. Even before the opera began the inmates of the Bedlam asylum were swarming over the stage; that they were all female, and found themselves in some pretty lurid postures raised suspicions from the start.
  8. He arrived in this Pakistani border town this month, reportedly to seek political asylum in the West.
  9. Sison then went abroad and won political asylum in the Netherlands last year after the military filed subversion charges against him.
  10. Lottery officials said even if he hadn't received asylum he would have gotten to keep the money.
  11. He was later granted political asylum in Algeria.
  12. We'll sustain every veto he's got." An unarmed Soviet man forced an Aeroflot airliner on a domestic flight with 26 people aboard to land in Finland on Friday and then asked for political asylum.
  13. A staffer in the office of David Ilchert, INS regional director, said Sunday morning the two had not filed an asylum request.
  14. The work was painted in 1889 while van Gogh was a voluntary patient at an asylum for the insane in Saint-Remy de Provence, France, where he lived until his suicide in 1890 at 37 years old.
  15. A court today rejected an appeal for political asylum from a Chinese man accused of hijacking a Chinese airliner to Japan, lawyers said.
  16. They have been denied asylum by Czechoslovakia because of their actions.
  17. Ambassador to Bahrain, Sam H. Zakhem, told reporters today that he believed that, if given the chance, some of the crewmen of the Iran Ajr would have sought political asylum in the West.
  18. Vietnamese have sailed by the tens of thousands to ports of asylum in non-Communist southeast Asia since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, but only a handful had previously asked to go back.
  19. Ultimately, unable to distinguish between conversations he'd heard five minutes or five years before, "S" wound up in an asylum.
  20. Saudi Arabia granted him political asylum in 1980.
  21. Iraq said they sought asylum and were in three refugee camps. The U.N. team found the facilities similar to POW camps, surrounded by barbed wire, but the residents had relative freedom of movement.
  22. Eighty-four Iraqis who arrived in Spain on a Jordanian Airlines jet asked for political asylum.
  23. The Swedish Immigration Board said it had not received any application from a Soviet player seeking political asylum.
  24. About 65% of the Chileans coming to Sweden are allowed to stay, even though many are rejected for asylum, he said.
  25. But the former spokesman said he believes the general was talked out of suicide and opted to seek diplomatic asylum the next day.
  26. The Brownsville area is the main entry for Central Americans who cross the border illegally and claim political asylum, and the new policy is expected to concentrate more displaced would-be immigrants in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
  27. Manuel Antonio Noriega could be granted political asylum in France or Spain if he is forced to relinquish his power in Panama, Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez said Saturday.
  28. Two Afghan airmen in a Soviet-built MiG-19 abandoned a bombing mission over Afghanistan on Monday and flew their fighter jet to Pakistan, where they asked for political asylum, authorities said.
  29. Speaking Persian through an interpreter, Zarif said his wife and two children were with him in Pakistan, but they were considering seeking political asylum in the United States.
  30. Dozens of Cubans have sought asylum in various foreign missions recently.
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