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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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 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。
• 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。
• This player is not in jails.
  此玩家不在监狱里面。
• 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
• 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。