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

• The prisons were without showers or recreational facilities.
  监狱里不为犯人提供淋浴或娱乐设施。
• All the country's prisons are full to capacity.
  全国所有的监狱都满了。
• 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。
• A more relaxed regime and regular work lends the inmates a dignity not seen in other prisons.
  由于管理较为宽松而且经常从事劳动，这里的囚犯因此多了一份其他监狱的囚犯所没有的尊严感。
• They gave us special prisons.
  他们却给我们一个特别囚犯。
• A dozen committees have met and published recommendations to decongest prisons, curb arbitrary arrests and speed up trials.
  据了解，一批大大小小的国家委员会进行了会晤并向外发布了一系列的建议，旨在减轻监狱的负担、控制任意的逮捕以及加速审判的过程。
• Staffing levels in prisons are too low.
  监狱管理人员数量太少。
• This law will help to reform the prisons.
  这条法律将有助于改革监狱内的情况。
• The United States has defended its policy of detaining juveniles in prisons in Iraq, and Afghanistan.
  美国为在伊拉克和阿富汗境内关押青少年的政策辩护。
• The SSI had not only withdrawn its own men, emptied its prisons and destroyed archives;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；