concentration camp

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
    — A concentration camp is a place, near the scene of intended operations or near an embarkation point, where troops are assembled for immediate use against the enemy or for transport to an over-sea theater of operations.
  2. A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
    — All Cubans (men, women, and children) were ordered to move into garrisoned Spanish towns or concentration camps.
  3. A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions. figuratively
    — The UN inspector stated that the Australian government's migrant detention facilities were in effect concentration camps.

词形变化

concentration camps plural

词汇关系

下位词
death camp extermination camp internment camp

词源

From concentration + camp. In later use partly after German Konzentrationslager, itself a calque of the English term.
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