Welcome to the Voice of America's “News Words”.
欢迎收听美国之音“新闻词汇”。
This word has to do with American prisons: Incarcerated.
这个单词和美国的监狱有关：监禁。
Thirty years later, the incarceration rate has increased 500 percent.
三十年过去了，监禁率上升了500个百分点。
The more than 2 million people now incarcerated in the U.S. make up the largest prison population in the world.
美国有超过两百万人被监禁，这是世界上最多的在押人员。
The word incarcerated means to be put in a jail or a prison.
单词“监禁”的意思是被关进监狱。

People who are incarcerated are there because they are guilty of a crime.
人们因为犯了罪而被关进监狱。
They are not free, and they cannot come and go on their own.
这些人没有自由，并且不能随意出行。
Now, when you hear the word incarcerated, you will know what it means, and you can use it in a conversation!
现在，当你听到单词“监禁”，你就知道它的意思了，你也可以在对话中用到它！