jails

英 [dʒeɪlz]

美 [dʒeɪlz]

n.  监狱
v.  监禁
jail的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用gaol


• N-VAR 监狱；看守所
  Ajailis a place where criminals are kept in order to punish them, or where people waiting to be tried are kept.
  1. Three prisoners escaped from a jail.
     3名囚犯越狱了。
• VERB 使入狱；监禁
  If someoneis jailed, they are put into jail.
  1. He was jailed for twenty years.
     他被判了20年监禁。

双语例句

• Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
  关于反动政府监狱里酷刑情况的介绍听了会叫人毛骨悚然。
• I ain't too crazy about jails, chief.
  我对监牢没什么喜好，警长。
• He had silent an aggregate of fifteen wars in various jails.
  他在不同的监牢里总共关了十五年。
• Jails and temporary detention camps are overflowing
  监狱和临时拘留所里人满为患。
• United Nations Symposium on the exploitation of the blacks in South Africa and Namibia and on prison conditions in the South African jails;
  联合国关于南非和纳米比亚境内剥削黑人以及南非监狱囚犯状况专题讨论会；
• Days later they were themselves murdered in murky circumstances in what purported to be one of the country's most secure jails.
  然而数天之后，他们自己却在阴暗的环境、说是该国最安全的监牢之一被灭口。
• It seems hard to think of anything bad to say about work in jails.
  我们似乎很难说让犯人劳动有什么不好。
• The militant extremists must be locked up in jails.
  极端分子就是应当待在监狱里反思他们做人的原则。
• The state of the country's jails was a cause for concern.
  过个国家监狱的状况令人担心。
• The guerrillas demanded the release of 200 Palestinians held in Israeli jails and a safe passage out of Germany.
  游击队要求释放关在以色列监狱中的200名巴勒斯坦人，并安全离开德国。