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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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 militant extremists must be locked up in jails.
  极端分子就是应当待在监狱里反思他们做人的原则。
• 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。
• 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。
• I was not a stranger to visiting arrangements in jails.
  我对监狱里的探监手续并不陌生。
• It seems hard to think of anything bad to say about work in jails.
  我们似乎很难说让犯人劳动有什么不好。