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

• Making use of written or common law, the serf-owners set up penitentiaries or private jails.
  农奴主运用成文法或习惯法，设立监狱或私牢。
• She was so ignorant of the world of police and jails and criminals.
  警察、监狱、囚徒，这一切对她太陌生啦。
• Some parts of California's criminal justice system ( county jails, for example) have already banned smoking.
  加州刑事司法系统的一些部门（例如县监狱）此前已实施了禁烟。
• But Britain's jails always fill up, no matter how many there are.
  但是，不管有多少监狱，总是会被填满。
• 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。
• Massachusetts isn't as bad as some states, which have used tobacco money to build jails and museums, or even to improve a public golf course.
  马萨诸塞州还不象有些州搞的那么差，那些州已经开始用烟草款建监狱和博物馆了，甚至用来改善公用的高尔夫球场。
• On the Influence of Mass Culture on Prisoners in Jails& A Case Study of Petty Violence Crimes
  大众文化对监狱服刑人员的影响&暴力犯罪的个案研究
• Palestinian women and children protest in Gaza City to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
  在加沙城，巴勒斯坦妇女和儿童抗议，要求释放关押在以色列监狱的巴勒斯坦囚犯。
• 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。
• Jails which punishment and the reformation the criminal, the author elaborates insure the safety of jails on foundation condition, key link, basic guarantee and important means.
  对于用来惩罚与改造罪犯的监狱，作者阐述了要确保监狱安全的基础条件，关键环节，根本保障及重要手段。