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 fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons
  该基金大部分用于了资助联邦监狱的建造。
• 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。
• Mind control experiments have been part of California for decades and permeate mental institutions and prisons.
  精神控制实验成为加州的一部分已经十年了，并且渗入到了精神病院和监狱中。
• A dozen committees have met and published recommendations to decongest prisons, curb arbitrary arrests and speed up trials.
  据了解，一批大大小小的国家委员会进行了会晤并向外发布了一系列的建议，旨在减轻监狱的负担、控制任意的逮捕以及加速审判的过程。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• British prisons remain disgracefully crowded and insanitary.
  英国监狱仍然拥挤不堪，卫生条件恶劣。
• The prisons were full of people who had been arrested for much less reason.
  监狱里关满了人，他们都是没有多少理由便被抓进去的。