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

• 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？
• He had silent an aggregate of fifteen wars in various jails.
  他在不同的监牢里总共关了十五年。
• 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 state of the country's jails was a cause for concern.
  过个国家监狱的状况令人担心。
• Check it out: People who have what you want are all over rehab clinics, divorce courts, and jails.
  想想吧：拥有你想要的一切的人们，也许正在康复中心、离婚法庭和监狱。
• Days later they were themselves murdered in murky circumstances in what purported to be one of the country's most secure jails.
  然而数天之后，他们自己却在阴暗的环境、说是该国最安全的监牢之一被灭口。
• Palestinian women and children protest in Gaza City to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
  在加沙城，巴勒斯坦妇女和儿童抗议，要求释放关押在以色列监狱的巴勒斯坦囚犯。
• 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 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。
• Massachusetts isn't as bad as some states, which have used tobacco money to build jails and museums, or even to improve a public golf course.
  马萨诸塞州还不象有些州搞的那么差，那些州已经开始用烟草款建监狱和博物馆了，甚至用来改善公用的高尔夫球场。