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

• 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。
• There's a lot of talk about what's wrong with prisons in America.
  许多人在讨论美国监狱到底出了什么问题。
• National governments, policy-makers and prison management need to address gender insensitivity and social injustice in prisons.
  各国政府、决策者和监狱管理层需要解决监狱中性别不敏感性和社会不公问题。
• They need to recruit more people into the prison service. But another point I'd like to make is that many prisons were built in the nineteenth century.
  监狱需要招募更多的工作人员。但我想补充一点，很多监狱都是在19世纪建造的。
• The prisons are all full up.
  各监狱人满为患。
• Some soldiers have been held captive in the enemy's prisons for years.
  有些士兵被敌人囚禁了许多年。
• 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 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。
• Animal rights advocates argue that zoos are really animal prisons and very often cruel.
  动物权利保护者指出动物园实际上是动物的牢笼，经常很残酷地对待动物。
• 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。