The poor peasant was thrown into a dungeon. 那个可怜的农民被投进了地牢。
A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon. 地牢,土牢深而隔离的拘留地;地牢
In the first act the curtain goes up on a dungeon in a landlord's house. 第一幕启幕时,舞台上现出了地主家里的一个地牢。
dungeon
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the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
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a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
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Dungeon \Dun"geon\, v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. --Bp. Hall.
dungeon \dun"geon\ (d[u^]n"j[u^]n), n. [OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See {Dame}, {Don}, and cf. {Dominion}, {Domain}, {Demesne}, {Danger}, {Donjon}.] A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
Down with him even into the deep dungeon. -- Tyndale.
Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. -- Macaulay.
Finally, though Cuba does not have a perfect record on human rights, Mr. Valladares had no credible evidence to back up his portrait of Cuba as a totalitarian dungeon.
Anderson the reporter, now locked up by Moslem militants in a makeshift dungeon, had once huddled with fearful Moslems in other basements, under Christian bombardment, there to tell their story to the world.
"If I had the power of my predecessors, I'd have put the perpetrators in the dungeon," he adds.
Ambassador Abderraouf Ounaies of Tunisia said there were stories that Beria had a dungeon built in the basement and a secret passageway.