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

• Which of these countries has a mercy-killing doctor now languishing in its jails?
  但是，在上述那个国家有医生因为实施安乐死而在监狱里服刑呢？
• I ain't too crazy about jails, chief.
  我对监牢没什么喜好，警长。
• 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。
• 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 legal character of the jail determines that the administration of jails must insist the principle of legality.
  监狱的法律属性决定了监狱管理必须坚持法制原则。
• 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
• 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；
• Result: smuggling, sky-high black market prices and an increase in violence up 400 per cent in the jails of Maine, according to reports.
  结果就是：走私、极高的黑市价格和暴力增加根据报告显示，缅因州监狱的暴力事件增加了400%。
• At one point, he likened our walled cities to "jails," while I insisted that the Eastern Suburbs were one of the many places in China that had no walls.
  有一次，他把我们的围墙城市“监狱，说：”虽然我坚持认为，东郊之一，在我国许多地方已经没有围墙。
• But Mr Arpaio's staff will continue to run immigration checks inside his jails.
  但阿尔帕约的探员们决心继续管理所辖监狱的移民[资格]审查。