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

• 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。
• Last week we heard about the awful conditions which exist in British prisons.
  上星期我们听说了英国监狱中的可怕情况。
• 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。
• A more relaxed regime and regular work lends the inmates a dignity not seen in other prisons.
  由于管理较为宽松而且经常从事劳动，这里的囚犯因此多了一份其他监狱的囚犯所没有的尊严感。
• The country's prisons are filled with drug-takers, and cannot cope with the numbers
  这个国家的监狱里挤满了瘾君子，都容纳不下了。
• 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。
• In some government agencies, such as the police and prisons, the role of coercion is obvious.
  在某些政府机构中，比如警察局和监狱，强制性是显而易见的。
• Staffing levels in prisons are too low.
  监狱管理人员数量太少。
• All the country's prisons are full to capacity.
  全国所有的监狱都满了。