prison
prison
英[ˈprɪzn]美[ˈprɪzn]
n.监狱，看守所；
复数：prisons;
例句
The soldiers escaped from the enemy's prison.战士们从敌人监狱里逃了出来。
If that man knocks his wife about any more, he'll be sent to prison.要是那个人还虐待妻子, 他就要被送往监狱。
A lawyer for the disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff told a federal judge on Tuesday that Mr. Madoff was expected to plead guilty later this week to charges that could result in his spending the rest of his life in prison.不光彩的金融家伯纳德-麦道夫的代理律师周二告诉一位联邦法官，麦道夫先生有望本周晚些时候承认那些可能导致他的下半生都在监狱度过的罪状。
The prison service has been badly mismanaged in recent years.近年来，监狱部门的管理极为不善。
The thief was shut up in prison.那小偷被监禁在狱中。
The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.那个卖国贼终于被人发现并被监禁了起来。
You've been in prison three times according to our records.根据我们的记录, 你曾入狱三次。
He escaped a prison sentence by reason of unsound mind at the time the crime was committed.他以犯罪时精神不正常为由逃过了监禁刑罚。
The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。
Prison is the best sanction against a crime like this.为遏止这类罪行, 监禁手段是上策。
英语六级真题
Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women.
出自-2012年6月听力原文柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
N-VAR
监狱；监牢；看守所
A prison is a building where criminals are kept as punishment or where people accused of a crime are kept before their trial.
例句
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。He was sentenced to life in prison...他被判处终身监禁。英汉词典释义
n.
监狱, 看守所
There is a large prison in this town.城里有座大监狱。牢笼, 禁锢之地
Tom hates school; it's a prison to him.汤姆不喜欢上学, 学校对他来说好像是个牢笼。监禁; 入狱; 坐牢;难以脱身的地方（或处境）；
Many people believe that prison isn't a cure for crime.许多人认为监禁并不是治愈犯罪的良方。英英词典释义
Noun
1. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
2. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
行业词典
建筑： 监狱；又称 :监狱(jail)；
法律： 看守所；牢狱；
