(literary) pen / fold (for livestock) / prison / jail / firm / secure / fast
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
jail cell / prison cell
firmly / safely
prison
to keep in mind / to remember
to be imprisoned
prison / dungeon
prison
to whine / to be grouchy
firm / secure
discontent / complaint / to complain
cage / trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) / fig. bonds (of wrong ideas) / shackles (of past misconceptions) / to trap / to shackle
(idiom) (usu. of sth abstract: an alliance, a conviction etc) unbreakable / rock-solid
firm and solid / robust / reliable
prison / jail
lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
inmate / cellmate
jailer (old)
solid / strong / firm / secure
imprisonment
jailer (old)
(coll.) to serve time in prison / (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)
a youth without facial hair cannot be relied upon (proverb)
see 嘴上沒毛，辦事不牢|嘴上没毛，办事不牢[]
tight-lipped
strong / firm
(in ancient times) sacrificial animal (cow, sheep or pig)
to immobilize with a lasso / to be trapped in the stock market
prison cell containing water, in which prisoners are forced to be partly immersed
lit. belly full of complaints (idiom) / discontent / always moaning and complaining
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom) / fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities
to gaze intently at / to scrutinize
to fortify / to strengthen / to firmly establish (safeguards, foundations or other abstract things)
to commit to memory
to be behind bars
see 蹲大牢[]
to go to prison / to be imprisoned
fallen into a trap
to clinch (a nail) / to nail down
to fall into a trap / ensnared
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