zindan

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. an improvised prison cell consisting of a hole in the ground covered with a metal grille or grate. Russia
    — They should have brought a few journalists into the mountains or to us in Argun when Lisitsyn shot the soldier on the rack—that would be a hoot. Then they would know what real torture is. But with them it’s all zindan this and zindan that. I think they just like the word.

词形变化

zindans plural

词源

Borrowed from Russian зинда́н (zindán), from Classical Persian زِنْدَان (zindān).
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