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。
• Posting peripheral armed guards at prisons and detention houses;
  对监狱和看守所实施外围武装警戒；
• Prisons are having to pack in as many inmates as possible
  监狱只好拼命往里面塞犯人。
• All the country's prisons are full to capacity.
  全国所有的监狱都满了。
• Animal rights advocates argue that zoos are really animal prisons and very often cruel.
  动物权利保护者指出动物园实际上是动物的牢笼，经常很残酷地对待动物。
• The SSI had not only withdrawn its own men, emptied its prisons and destroyed archives;
  国家安全调查局的所有人员不仅撤退了，并且还清空了其监狱，毁灭了所有的档案；
• They gave us special prisons.
  他们却给我们一个特别囚犯。
• 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。
• 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。
• This law will help to reform the prisons.
  这条法律将有助于改革监狱内的情况。