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

• The guerrillas demanded the release of 200 Palestinians held in Israeli jails and a safe passage out of Germany.
  游击队要求释放关在以色列监狱中的200名巴勒斯坦人，并安全离开德国。
• 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。
• I ain't too crazy about jails, chief.
  我对监牢没什么喜好，警长。
• 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。
• But Mr Arpaio's staff will continue to run immigration checks inside his jails.
  但阿尔帕约的探员们决心继续管理所辖监狱的移民[资格]审查。
• The state of the country's jails was a cause for concern.
  过个国家监狱的状况令人担心。
• 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。
• She was so ignorant of the world of police and jails and criminals.
  警察、监狱、囚徒，这一切对她太陌生啦。
• 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。
• 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；