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 state of the country's jails was a cause for concern.
  过个国家监狱的状况令人担心。
• I ain't too crazy about jails, chief.
  我对监牢没什么喜好，警长。
• In the interview he was asked, When Osho was in the jails of America, were you disturbed?
  在采访中他被问到：当奥修被关在美国的监狱里时，你受到打搅了吗？
• 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。
• On the Influence of Mass Culture on Prisoners in Jails& A Case Study of Petty Violence Crimes
  大众文化对监狱服刑人员的影响&暴力犯罪的个案研究
• Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
  关于反动政府监狱里酷刑情况的介绍听了会叫人毛骨悚然。
• The legal character of the jail determines that the administration of jails must insist the principle of legality.
  监狱的法律属性决定了监狱管理必须坚持法制原则。
• I was not a stranger to visiting arrangements in jails.
  我对监狱里的探监手续并不陌生。
• Which of these countries has a mercy-killing doctor now languishing in its jails?
  但是，在上述那个国家有医生因为实施安乐死而在监狱里服刑呢？
• Jails and temporary detention camps are overflowing
  监狱和临时拘留所里人满为患。