"behind bars" meaning in 英語

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-behind bars.ogg
  1. 坐牢 Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: zh-behind_bars-en-prep_phrase-WpuOtxl9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有1個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語介詞短語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Margot Roosevelt et al., \"The War Against The War On Drugs,\" Time, 7 May:",
          "text": "Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ian Black, \"Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis\", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:",
          "text": "Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police."
        }
      ],
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        "坐牢"
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "behind bars"
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    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "有詞條的頁面",
    "英語介詞短語",
    "英語詞元"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Margot Roosevelt et al., \"The War Against The War On Drugs,\" Time, 7 May:",
          "text": "Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ian Black, \"Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis\", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:",
          "text": "Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police."
        }
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        "坐牢"
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
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