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

• 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。
• It seems hard to think of anything bad to say about work in jails.
  我们似乎很难说让犯人劳动有什么不好。
• In the interview he was asked, When Osho was in the jails of America, were you disturbed?
  在采访中他被问到：当奥修被关在美国的监狱里时，你受到打搅了吗？
• I was not a stranger to visiting arrangements in jails.
  我对监狱里的探监手续并不陌生。
• I ain't too crazy about jails, chief.
  我对监牢没什么喜好，警长。
• 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。
• The guerrillas demanded the release of 200 Palestinians held in Israeli jails and a safe passage out of Germany.
  游击队要求释放关在以色列监狱中的200名巴勒斯坦人，并安全离开德国。
• 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 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。
• 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。