prisons

英 [ˈprɪznz]

美 [ˈprɪzənz]

n.  监狱; 牢狱; 看守所; 监禁; 关押; 关押制度; 难以脱身的地方(或处境); 牢笼; 樊笼
prison的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 监狱；监牢；看守所
  Aprisonis a building where criminals are kept as punishment or where people accused of a crime are kept before their trial.
  1. The prison's inmates are being kept in their cells...
     这个监狱的犯人被关在他们的囚室里。
  2. He was sentenced to life in prison...
     他被判处终身监禁。
  3. They released Mr Mandela from prison in 1990.
     1990年，他们将曼德拉先生从狱中释放。
  4. ...the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison.
     圣昆廷监狱的毒气室

双语例句

• Last week we heard about the awful conditions which exist in British prisons.
  上星期我们听说了英国监狱中的可怕情况。
• Mind control experiments have been part of California for decades and permeate mental institutions and prisons.
  精神控制实验成为加州的一部分已经十年了，并且渗入到了精神病院和监狱中。
• The United States has defended its policy of detaining juveniles in prisons in Iraq, and Afghanistan.
  美国为在伊拉克和阿富汗境内关押青少年的政策辩护。
• The city has turned prisons and jails into a catchment for mentally ill people who get into trouble.
  该市已经把监狱和拘留所变成了对遇到麻烦的精神病人的关押处。
• The money spent on prisons could be better spent on training first-time law-breakers to earn an honest living.
  与其把钱花在监狱上，还不如用来培训初次犯罪者学习正当谋生的技能。
• Staffing levels in prisons are too low.
  监狱管理人员数量太少。
• Prisons like Strangeways, built more than 100 years ago, were intended to look grim and foreboding places.
  诸如斯特兰奇韦斯监狱之类建于100多年前的监狱故意营造出一种阴森、不祥的气氛。
• Its leaders have been enraged by the transfer of their members to more secure prisons.
  由于组织成员被移送到更安全的监狱，它的领导人被激怒了。
• There is severe overcrowding in our prisons.
  我们的监狱里过度拥挤的现象极其严重。
• Jails and prisons often find themselves unprepared to deal with the mentally ill.
  拘留所和监狱常常感到他们自己还没有能力处理精神病犯人。