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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The weather couldn't have been better.
天气再好不过了。
He didn't say anything as to where he would go.
关于他的去处他什么也没说。
but he was in such a bedraggled condition than an assistant refused to serve him.
但店员见他浑身泥水的样子，竟不肯接待他。