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
- Hard to believe, I know, but my usually reliable White House insiders tell me that President Bush is trying to decide whether or not to pardon Amy Fisher, now jailed in an upstate penitentiary.
我知道，这很难令人相信，不过我在白宫里的内线（他的消息通常很可靠）告诉我：布什总统正在考虑是否应该赦免正在上州坐监的埃米・费歇尔。 - It was spring before I managed to escape from the penitentiary, and then only by a stroke of fortune.
待我设法逃离这座感化院已是春天了，那还是因为命运的巧妙安排。 - 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。 - There are three tribunals in Vatican which are the Supreme tribunal, the appeal tribunal and the apostolic penitentiary.
梵蒂冈有三个法庭：即最高法庭、上诉法庭和教廷赦罪院。 - He escaped from the state penitentiary late last night.
他昨天深夜从州监狱逃跑了。 - 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。 - Tell her I didn't die like a damn convict locked up in some penitentiary.
告诉她我可没死得像劳改局里头窝囊的囚犯似的。 - 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。 - Tom Joad was released from the Oklahoma state penitentiary where he had served a sentence for killing a man in self-defense.
汤姆·乔德从俄克拉何马州立监狱中释放出来，他是由于自卫杀人在那座监狱里服刑的。他在监狱里服过两年徒刑。 - European Meeting of Heads of Prison Administrations He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
欧洲监狱机构首长会议他在这所州监狱任看守长。