asylum

复数：asylums

1. [U](政治)庇护,避难 protection that a government gives to people who have left their own country, usually because they were in danger for political reasons
2. [C]精神病院 hospital where people who were mentally ill could be cared for, often for a long time

• seek asylum寻求政治避难
• deny sb's asylum拒绝给某人庇护
• apply for asylum申请政治避难
• ask for political asylum请求政治避难

• blind and dumb asylum盲哑院
• political asylum政治避难
• proprietary asylum私立救济院

• founding asylum育婴堂
• orphan asylum孤儿院

• asylum for lepers麻风院
• asylum for the aged养老院
• asylum of political refugees政治难民的避难处

political asylum政治庇护，政治避难

insane asylum精神病院

lunatic asylum精神病院，疯人院

mental asylum精神病院

1. Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.
   这儿是一家照顾精神病患者和赤贫人员的收容所。
2. We'll start an asylum for old-time people.
   我们要给老一代人准备一个避难所。
3. The people ask for political asylum.
   人们请求政治避难。
4. He was soon committed to an insane asylum.
   不久他就给送进了疯人院。