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

• I was not a stranger to visiting arrangements in jails.
  我对监狱里的探监手续并不陌生。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• He had silent an aggregate of fifteen wars in various jails.
  他在不同的监牢里总共关了十五年。
• 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？
• This player is not in jails.
  此玩家不在监狱里面。