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 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。
• 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。
• Some parts of California's criminal justice system ( county jails, for example) have already banned smoking.
  加州刑事司法系统的一些部门（例如县监狱）此前已实施了禁烟。
• United Nations Symposium on the exploitation of the blacks in South Africa and Namibia and on prison conditions in the South African jails;
  联合国关于南非和纳米比亚境内剥削黑人以及南非监狱囚犯状况专题讨论会；
• 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。
• I ain't too crazy about jails, chief.
  我对监牢没什么喜好，警长。
• I was not a stranger to visiting arrangements in jails.
  我对监狱里的探监手续并不陌生。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。