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

• 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。
• National governments, policy-makers and prison management need to address gender insensitivity and social injustice in prisons.
  各国政府、决策者和监狱管理层需要解决监狱中性别不敏感性和社会不公问题。
• Prisons like Strangeways, built more than 100 years ago, were intended to look grim and foreboding places.
  诸如斯特兰奇韦斯监狱之类建于100多年前的监狱故意营造出一种阴森、不祥的气氛。
• The country's prisons are filled with drug-takers, and cannot cope with the numbers
  这个国家的监狱里挤满了瘾君子，都容纳不下了。
• The prisons are all full up.
  各监狱人满为患。
• In some government agencies, such as the police and prisons, the role of coercion is obvious.
  在某些政府机构中，比如警察局和监狱，强制性是显而易见的。
• Posting peripheral armed guards at prisons and detention houses;
  对监狱和看守所实施外围武装警戒；
• The prisons were without showers or recreational facilities.
  监狱里不为犯人提供淋浴或娱乐设施。
• The prisons were full of people who had been arrested for much less reason.
  监狱里关满了人，他们都是没有多少理由便被抓进去的。
• This law will help to reform the prisons.
  这条法律将有助于改革监狱内的情况。