penitentiary
英 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]
美 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]
n. 监狱
BNC.37321 / COCA.17346
牛津词典
noun
- 监狱
a prison
柯林斯词典
- 监狱
Apenitentiaryis a prison.
英英释义
noun
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
adj
- showing or constituting penance
- penitential tears
- wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words
- used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
- penitentiary institutions
双语例句
- You know, if he committed any offence, it was being loyal and true to his brother whom he loved. I know where you will send him and it will not be to a penitentiary.
你们知道，如果说他有什么罪，那就是他对兄长的忠诚和热爱，我相信你们是不会把他送进教养院的。 - Hard to believe, I know, but my usually reliable White House insiders tell me that President Bush is trying to decide whether or not to pardon Amy Fisher, now jailed in an upstate penitentiary.
我知道，这很难令人相信，不过我在白宫里的内线（他的消息通常很可靠）告诉我：布什总统正在考虑是否应该赦免正在上州坐监的埃米・费歇尔。 - Xie Jin must have been particularly moved: he hired Zhao to star in a movie, Nu Er Gu ( Penitentiary Angel).
相信谢晋尢其感动：他在一部电影《女儿谷》（落难俏佳人）中起用了赵薇。 - She was placed in the Dublin penitentiary for dealing in drugs by telephone.
她因通过德律风做毒品交易而被囚于都柏林监狱。 - Tom Joad was released from the Oklahoma state penitentiary where he had served a sentence for killing a man in self-defense.
汤姆·乔德从俄克拉何马州立监狱中释放出来，他是由于自卫杀人在那座监狱里服刑的。他在监狱里服过两年徒刑。 - And you'll be spending every day in the federal penitentiary.
每一天都在联邦监狱度过。 - Next day Paul was sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary and taken off.
第二天，保罗被判三年徒刑，随即解往州监狱。 - Only the place where they were working is the opposite of summer camp: Alcatraz, the notoriously bleak military prison turned maximum-security penitentiary turned national park.
只不过这里跟夏令营正好相反&这里是阿尔卡特拉斯，它起初是一座凄凉暗淡、臭名昭著的军方监狱，后来成了最高安全级别的监狱，最后又变成了国家公园。 - European Meeting of Heads of Prison Administrations He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
欧洲监狱机构首长会议他在这所州监狱任看守长。 - He knowed him in the moundsville penitentiary.
他是在蒙斯维尔监狱认识他的。