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

• Its leaders have been enraged by the transfer of their members to more secure prisons.
  由于组织成员被移送到更安全的监狱，它的领导人被激怒了。
• 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。
• Posting peripheral armed guards at prisons and detention houses;
  对监狱和看守所实施外围武装警戒；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 is severe overcrowding in our prisons.
  我们的监狱里过度拥挤的现象极其严重。
• 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。
• 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。