penitentiary
英 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]
美 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]
n. 监狱
BNC.37321 / COCA.17346
牛津词典
noun
- 监狱
a prison
柯林斯词典
- 监狱
Apenitentiaryis a prison.
英英释义
noun
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
adj
- showing or constituting penance
- penitential tears
- wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words
- used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
- penitentiary institutions
双语例句
- The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks.
监狱已经塞满了人,大多都是黑人。 - Xie Jin must have been particularly moved: he hired Zhao to star in a movie, Nu Er Gu ( Penitentiary Angel).
相信谢晋尢其感动:他在一部电影《女儿谷》(落难俏佳人)中起用了赵薇。 - She was placed in the Dublin penitentiary for dealing in drugs by telephone.
她因通过德律风做毒品交易而被囚于都柏林监狱。 - Next day Paul was sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary and taken off.
第二天,保罗被判三年徒刑,随即解往州监狱。 - Fastow be imprisoned in a federal penitentiary in Bastrop, Texas, where he can be treated for his dependency on anti-anxiety medication.
休斯敦请求把法斯托关押在德克萨斯州巴斯多普的联邦监狱,在那里可以治疗他对抗焦虑药物的依赖性。 - And I'll have you shipped to alder penitentiary.
我会把你运送到阿尔德监狱。 - While he was in the penitentiary her father died and the family broke up.
他坐牢的时候,她的父亲死了,家庭就拆散了。 - Do you know anyone at the Kansas State penitentiary?
你认识肯萨斯州监狱里的人吗? - Therefore, we need to do an educated modern people, obviously, the penitentiary was not born, is an acquired culture.
所以我们要做一个有教养的现代人,显然,教养不是天生的,是后天培养的。 - Dwight is in lucasville state penitentiary.
德怀特在卢卡斯威州监狱。