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

• British prisons remain disgracefully crowded and insanitary.
  英国监狱仍然拥挤不堪，卫生条件恶劣。
• 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。
• They gave us special prisons.
  他们却给我们一个特别囚犯。
• The prisons are all full up.
  各监狱人满为患。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is severe overcrowding in our prisons.
  我们的监狱里过度拥挤的现象极其严重。
• 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。
• 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。