asylums n. 收容所;避难所;流亡生物区(asylum的复数形式)
- Men easily get depress and there are more men admitted in mental asylums.
男人则容易沮丧,因而有较多的男人患有精神病。 - It would be far cheaper for the public purse, and more effcient, if we were locked up in asylums.
我们要是给关进疯人院,对公众的钱包来说会便宜得多,而且办事也要有效得多。 - Though we tend to see women crying all the time they are stronger emotionally. Men easily get depress and there are more men admitted in mental asylums.
虽然我们经常见到女人哭泣,但是她们是坚强的。男人则容易沮丧,因而有较多的男人患有精神病。
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.