imprison汉语翻译：
vt. 使下狱, 关闭, 拘禁, 限制
【法】 关押, 监禁, 限制词型变化：
名词:imprisonment动词过去式:imprisoned过去分词:imprisoned现在分词:imprisoning第三人称单数:imprisons形容词:imprisonable词意辨析：
confine, imprison, jail这些动词均含“监禁”之意。
confine: 指监禁或幽禁；也指任何使行动受到限制的行为。
imprison: 较正式用词，多指较长时间的监禁。
jail: (英国用gaol)多指审判之间的拘禁或对罪行较轻的罪犯的监禁。英语解释：
动词 imprison:

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail同义词：incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand

confine as if in a prison

例句：

A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years.在一出极为成功的演出中，一位著名演员有一次被选派扮演一名贵族。这位贵族被关押在巴士底狱已20年了。

They don't usually imprison first offenders.他们通常不监禁初次犯罪的人。

He was imprisoned for life.他被终生监禁。

Many coal-miners were imprisoned in a pit accident.在一次塌方事故中，许多矿工被压在了井下。

详细解释：
im.pris.on
v.tr.（及物动词）
im.pris.oned,im.pris.on.ing,im.pris.ons
To put in or as if in prison; confine.
束缚；禁锢：关进或好象关进监狱；禁锢
来源：
Middle English emprisonen
中古英语 emprisonen
from Old French emprisoner
源自 古法语 emprisoner
en- [in] from Latin in- * see in- 2
en- [在…里面] 源自 拉丁语 in- *参见 in-2
prison [prison] * see prison
prison [监狱] *参见 prison
【引伸】
impris.onable
adj.（形容词）
impris.onment
n.（名词）

imprisonment