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

• They need to recruit more people into the prison service. But another point I'd like to make is that many prisons were built in the nineteenth century.
  监狱需要招募更多的工作人员。但我想补充一点，很多监狱都是在19世纪建造的。
• 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。
• Jails and prisons often find themselves unprepared to deal with the mentally ill.
  拘留所和监狱常常感到他们自己还没有能力处理精神病犯人。
• Staffing levels in prisons are too low.
  监狱管理人员数量太少。
• British prisons remain disgracefully crowded and insanitary.
  英国监狱仍然拥挤不堪，卫生条件恶劣。
• Animal rights advocates argue that zoos are really animal prisons and very often cruel.
  动物权利保护者指出动物园实际上是动物的牢笼，经常很残酷地对待动物。
• There is severe overcrowding in our prisons.
  我们的监狱里过度拥挤的现象极其严重。
• 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。
• 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 money spent on prisons could be better spent on training first-time law-breakers to earn an honest living.
  与其把钱花在监狱上，还不如用来培训初次犯罪者学习正当谋生的技能。